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If you suspect criminal foulplay, you call the FBI. If you suspect blackops by a foreign government, you call the CIA. And they may keep quiet about it. I like
by Iv 10y ago
If you suspect criminal foulplay, you call the FBI. If you suspect blackops by a foreign government, you call the CIA. And they may keep quiet about it.
I like how Stratfor's leaked glossary presented the FBI:
"Federal Bureau of Investigation, aka the Downtown Gang.
Very good a breaking up used car rings. Kind of confused
on anything more complicated. Fun to jerk with. Not fun
when they jerk back."
- maxerickson 10y agoIt used to be that the CIA had no authority to run operations inside the US. Has that changed? Do they routinely ignore their lack of authority at the request of private entities?
- emp_zealoth 10y agoLoopholes, duh
- andyidsinga 10y agoI just watch Sicario last night - pretty good movie actually - a central element to the story is how they operate in US borders.
- maxerickson 10y agoIs it based on official documents obtained from the CIA? Or is it a made up story?
- sprafa 10y agomade up but plausible. A large part of the plot is how they need to work with local agents so they are not "technically" CIA. They are working in some way as consultants in a very dangerous operation.
- abysmallyideal 10y agoThey operated agents in the US disguised as a variety of laborers and professions during the red scare, both posing as communist/socialist organizers as well as patrons. It was estimated many communist and socialist organizations received a majority of their donations from undercover fbi and CIA agents. In many cases, their meetups were almost all undercover agents.
- ckozlowski 10y agoCounter-Intelligence (as in, foreign governments running operations on U.S. soil) is the jurisdiction of the of the FBI. CIA might catch wind of things, but it's the FBI that investigates. They work together, but separation is clear.
- Iv 10y agoTIL, thanks!