I think to really understand what the CIA is doing today you need to look at its history and how it came about after World War II. Created by Truman as a centra

I think to really understand what the CIA is doing today you need to look at its history and how it came about after World War II. Created by Truman as a central office for all of the intelligence to be collected by the multitude of spy agencies the US had, started as a small office. By 1963, Truman wrote an op-ed about how it had become the foreign policy arm of the US with no oversight. Link to op-ed: http://tinyurl.com/hstheus http://tinyurl.com/hstheus Congressional oversight of the CIA didn't begin until the Hughes-Ryan act of 1974. This act slowed down the cloak and dagger activities of the organization but never eliminated them.