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Truman Was Right About the CIA

Posted by M. C. on March 13, 2017

https://mises.org/blog/truman-was-right-about-cia?_sm_byp=iVV1Z20Fqj2TQV2r

But even if Truman’s homespun honesty and common man persona sometime wore thin, he deserves enormous credit for the startling admission that he regretted creating the CIA. Speaking to a biographer in the 1960s, less than 20 years after signing the National Security Act of 1947, Truman expressed a sense of foreboding about what the agency had become, and would become: Read the rest of this entry »

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