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Your dad was probably representative of many people at intelligence agencies. There's no amount of apparent evil that bureaucracy isn't sufficient to explain.
by thomassmith65 1y ago
Your dad was probably representative of many people at intelligence agencies. There's no amount of apparent evil that bureaucracy isn't sufficient to explain.
- ChrisMarshallNY 1y agoWell, he was a field agent. His job was to run assets in-country (Valerie Plame had a similar role). He worked in West Africa, where Russian proxies were trying to foster communist insurgencies. He was a very, very decent person; maybe too decent. The straw that broke the camel's back, was the Shah of Iran.
- thomassmith65 1y agoThere are a couple Miles Copeland books on my reading list. They might be of interest to you. He was a big CIA guy (and also father of famous drummer Stewart Copeland) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_Copeland_Jr https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_Copeland_Jr.
- ChrisMarshallNY 1y agoI suspect my father was not a fan.
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- thomassmith65 1y agoThat's understandable. I just read a Miles Copeland interview from 1986 in which he complains about the CIA apparently assassinating fewer foreign leaders and being too truthful to congress.