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	== CIA leadership and personnel ==		== CIA leadership and personnel ==
			<blockquote>''See also: [[:Category:CIA personnel]]''</blockquote>

	=== CIA directors ===		=== CIA directors ===
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	* [[United States imperialism]]		* [[United States imperialism]]
	* [[:Category:Imperialist secret police\|Imperialist secret police]]		* [[:Category:Imperialist secret police\|Imperialist secret police]]
			* [[:Category:CIA personnel\|List of CIA personnel]]
	*[[National Endowment for Democracy]]		*[[National Endowment for Democracy]]
	*[[United States Department of State]]		*[[United States Department of State]]

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	Former CIA case officer [[Ralph McGehee]] described the CIA in the following way: "The CIA is not an intelligence agency. In fact, it acts largely as an anti-intelligence agency, producing only that information wanted by policymakers to support their plans and suppressing information that does not support those plans. As the covert action arm of the President, the CIA uses disinformation, much of it aimed at the U.S. public, to mold opinion." McGehee further states: "Instead of gathering genuine intelligence that could serve as the basis for reasonable policies, the CIA often ends up distorting reality, creating out of whole cloth 'intelligence' to justify policies that have already been decided upon. Policymakers then leak this 'intelligence' to the media to deceive us all and gain our support."<ref>Ralph W. McGehee. ''[https://archive.org/details/11-deadly-deceits-my-25-years-in-ralph-w.-mc-gehee Deadly Deceits: My 25 Years in the CIA]''. 1983. Open Road Integrated Media, New York. </ref>		Former CIA case officer [[Ralph McGehee]] described the CIA in the following way: "The CIA is not an intelligence agency. In fact, it acts largely as an anti-intelligence agency, producing only that information wanted by policymakers to support their plans and suppressing information that does not support those plans. As the covert action arm of the President, the CIA uses disinformation, much of it aimed at the U.S. public, to mold opinion." McGehee further states: "Instead of gathering genuine intelligence that could serve as the basis for reasonable policies, the CIA often ends up distorting reality, creating out of whole cloth 'intelligence' to justify policies that have already been decided upon. Policymakers then leak this 'intelligence' to the media to deceive us all and gain our support."<ref>Ralph W. McGehee. ''[https://archive.org/details/11-deadly-deceits-my-25-years-in-ralph-w.-mc-gehee Deadly Deceits: My 25 Years in the CIA]''. 1983. Open Road Integrated Media, New York. </ref>

			=== Suppressing progressive movements ===
			The CIA functions to shore up reactionary power structures against progressive change. As summarized by Philip Agee in ''On The Run'', speaking on his observations after working for the CIA in Latin America, "we sought to divide, weaken and destroy our local 'enemies' (every group from left social democrats to legal communist parties to armed revolutionaries) in order to buy time for our 'friends' to make political and economic reforms." As Agee explains, these supposed "reforms" never took place, and the CIA's work only functioned to further entrench the power and wealth of their "friends", who were "the same old oligarchies, the large land owners and commercial interests":<ref name=":13">Philip Agee (1987). ''On The Run'' (pp. 15-16).</ref><blockquote>By the time I returned to Washington in 1966 I had no more illusions about internal reforms. They hadn't happened. In fact, the more successful we were in our operations to promote repression of the left, the further away any possibilities for reform moved. Why? Because the pressures for reforms got correspondingly weaker. The result? The same old oligarchies, the large land owners and commercial interests, in other words our best "friends," continued enjoyment of their power, prestige and privilege as they always had. [...] Gradually I began to understand that all the preaching about reform was nothing more than rhetoric, both in Washington and in Latin America, where it came from the very people and groups who most benefitted from my work. I saw them as no more than the current generation of a system of greed and corruption going back centuries. They weren't about to install reforms that might threaten their wealth and power.<ref name=":13" /></blockquote>

	=== Influencing public opinion ===		=== Influencing public opinion ===

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	{{Quote\|We'll intervene whenever we decide it's in our national security interests to intervene, and if you don't like it, lump it. Get used to it, world -- we're not gonna put up with nonsense. And if our interests are threatened, we're gonna do it.\|Duane Clarridge. (2015). ''John Pilger interviews former CIA Latin America chief Duane Clarridge''\|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ER77vxxGVAY }}		{{Quote\|We'll intervene whenever we decide it's in our national security interests to intervene, and if you don't like it, lump it. Get used to it, world -- we're not gonna put up with nonsense. And if our interests are threatened, we're gonna do it.\|Duane Clarridge. (2015). ''John Pilger interviews former CIA Latin America chief Duane Clarridge''\|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ER77vxxGVAY }}

			{{Quote\|We in the CIA, along with State, USIA, AID and the military missions, work to shore up the traditional power structures of those countries against the people who stand for change. You remember the Alliance for Progress and how miserably it failed? All that talk about fiscal reforms for redistribution of income and land reform to eliminate the latifundia-minifundia problems? The only place that really changed was Cuba and there it took a revolution to do it. [...] Our operations help sustain favorable operating conditions for U. S. -based multi-national corporations. These conditions, together with political hegemony, were our real goals. So-called liberal democracy and pluralism were only means to those ends.\|Philip Agee\|On The Run\|1987, quotes from p. 36 and p. 76}}

	== History ==		== History ==

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	In addition to disseminating false stories and fake photos to the press, the CIA has also been involved in the printing of an untold number of books that contain CIA talking points regarding topics such as history and Marxism. According to Stockwell, a thousand of such books were printed during the Vietnam War, and many of the authors who produced these books under the auspices of the CIA went on to become respected figures in academia.<ref name=":0" />		In addition to disseminating false stories and fake photos to the press, the CIA has also been involved in the printing of an untold number of books that contain CIA talking points regarding topics such as history and Marxism. According to Stockwell, a thousand of such books were printed during the Vietnam War, and many of the authors who produced these books under the auspices of the CIA went on to become respected figures in academia.<ref name=":0" />

	The CIA and its front organizations have also taken an interest in funding and being involved with particular ideological currents and philosophical schools, such as can be seen with the CIA's interest in the [[Non-Communist Left]] and the [[Congress for Cultural Freedom]] as well as promotion of the [[Frankfurt School]] and influencing the development of [[critical theory]].<ref>Gabriel Rockhill. [https://mronline.org/2022/07/06/the-cia-the-frankfurt-schools-anti-communism/ “The CIA & the Frankfurt School’s Anti-Communism.”] MR Online. July 6, 2022. [https://web.archive.org/web/20220911102147/https://mronline.org/2022/07/06/the-cia-the-frankfurt-schools-anti-communism/ Archived] 2022-09-11.</ref>		The CIA and its front organizations have also taken an interest in funding and being involved with particular ideological currents and philosophical schools, such as can be seen with the CIA's interest in the [[Non-Communist Left]] and the [[Congress for Cultural Freedom]] as well as promotion of the [[Frankfurt School]] and influencing the development of [[critical theory]].<ref>Gabriel Rockhill. [https://mronline.org/2022/07/06/the-cia-the-frankfurt-schools-anti-communism/ “The CIA & the Frankfurt School’s Anti-Communism.”] MR Online. July 6, 2022. [https://web.archive.org/web/20220911102147/https://mronline.org/2022/07/06/the-cia-the-frankfurt-schools-anti-communism/ Archived] 2022-09-11.</ref> CIA psychological operations are deeply embedded with academia, especially a certain trend of French left postmodernism.<ref>{{Web citation\|author=Gabriel Rockhill\|newspaper=MRonline, originally published in The Philosophical Salon\|title=The CIA read French Theory: On the intellectual labor of dismantling the cultural Left\|date=2017-02-28\|url=https://mronline.org/2024/12/30/the-cia-read-french-theory-on-the-intellectual-labor-of-dismantling-the-cultural-left/?utm_campaign=the-cia-read-french-theory-on-the-intellectual-labor-of-dismantling-the-cultural-left}}</ref>

	The [[National Endowment for Democracy]] (NED) is a notable CIA-related organization used for influencing and supporting anti-communist projects.<ref>{{Web citation\|newspaper=Embassy of the People's Republic of China in the United States of America\|title=Fact Sheet on the National Endowment for Democracy\|date=2022-05-07\|url=http://us.china-embassy.gov.cn/eng/zgyw/202205/t20220507_10683090.htm\|retrieved=2025-06-24}}</ref> The NED exists to fund these projects openly where previously they would have been funded covertly by the CIA.<ref>{{Web citation\|author=Matt Kennard and Mark Curtis\|newspaper=Declassified UK\|title=‘CIA sidekick’ gives £2.6m to UK media groups\|date=2022-01-17\|url=https://www.declassifieduk.org/cia-sidekick-gives-2-6m-to-uk-media-groups/\|retrieved=2025-06-24}}</ref>		The [[National Endowment for Democracy]] (NED) is a notable CIA-related organization used for influencing and supporting anti-communist projects.<ref>{{Web citation\|newspaper=Embassy of the People's Republic of China in the United States of America\|title=Fact Sheet on the National Endowment for Democracy\|date=2022-05-07\|url=http://us.china-embassy.gov.cn/eng/zgyw/202205/t20220507_10683090.htm\|retrieved=2025-06-24}}</ref> The NED exists to fund these projects openly where previously they would have been funded covertly by the CIA.<ref>{{Web citation\|author=Matt Kennard and Mark Curtis\|newspaper=Declassified UK\|title=‘CIA sidekick’ gives £2.6m to UK media groups\|date=2022-01-17\|url=https://www.declassifieduk.org/cia-sidekick-gives-2-6m-to-uk-media-groups/\|retrieved=2025-06-24}}</ref>

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	*[[Project MKUltra]]		*[[Project MKUltra]]
			*[[CIA Interventions in Indigenous Movements]]
	*[[CIA Tibetan program]]		*[[CIA Tibetan program]]
	*[[Colour revolution]]		*[[Colour revolution]]

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	=== Influencing public opinion ===		=== Influencing public opinion ===
	The CIA, through numerous agents and front organizations, plays a large role in disseminating disinformation and attempting to influence public opinion.		The CIA, through numerous agents and front organizations, plays a large role in disseminating disinformation and attempting to influence public opinion.

			Writing in 1977, the journalist [[Carl Bernstein]] listed the Columbia Broadcasting System, Time Inc., the New York Times, the Louisville Courier‑Journal, the Copley News Service, the American Broadcasting Company, the National Broadcasting Company, the Associated Press, United Press International, Reuters, Hearst Newspapers, Scripps‑Howard, Newsweek magazine, the Mutual Broadcasting System, the Miami Herald, the Saturday Evening Post and the New York Herald‑Tribune as media outlets that cooperated with the CIA''.''<ref>{{Web citation\|author=Carl Bernstein\|newspaper=Rolling Stone\|title=The CIA and the Media\|date=1977-10-20\|url=https://www.carlbernstein.com/magazine_cia_and_media.php\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071026060752/https://www.carlbernstein.com/magazine_cia_and_media.php\|archive-date=2007-10-26\|retrieved=2025-06-23\|quote=Among the executives who lent their cooperation to the Agency were William Paley of the Columbia Broadcasting System, Henry Luce of Time Inc., Arthur Hays Sulzberger of the New York Times, Barry Bingham Sr. of the LouisviIle Courier‑Journal, and James Copley of the Copley News Service. Other organizations which cooperated with the CIA include the American Broadcasting Company, the National Broadcasting Company, the Associated Press, United Press International, Reuters, Hearst Newspapers, Scripps‑Howard, Newsweek magazine, the Mutual Broadcasting System, the Miami Herald and the old Saturday Evening Post and New York Herald‑Tribune.}}</ref> Media organizations such as [[Voice of America]], [[Radio Free Asia]], and [[Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty\|Radio Liberty]] also promote CIA propaganda. In particular, [[Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty\|Radio Liberty]] was funded by the CIA until 1971.<ref>{{Citation\|author=Cord Meyer\|year=2000\|title=The CIA and Radio Free Europe\|title-url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/43134017}}</ref> During a hearing before the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, former CIA analyst [[Ray S. Cline]] described the [[Bourgeois media\|bourgeois media's]] collaboration with the CIA as an "entirely natural" extension of both institutions' work as intelligence gatherers and laid out several ways their duties overlapped.<ref>{{Citation\|year=1978\|title=The CIA and the Media: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Oversight of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, House of Representatives, Ninety-fifth Congress, First and Second Sessions\|title-url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015039053452&seq=1\|chapter=Tuesday, December 27, 1977\|section=Statement of Dr. Ray S. Cline, executive director of studies, The Center for Strategic and International Studies, Georgetown University\|page=60-67\|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office}}</ref>

	In addition to disseminating false stories and fake photos to the press, the CIA has also been involved in the printing of an untold number of books that contain CIA talking points regarding topics such as history and Marxism. According to Stockwell, a thousand of such books were printed during the Vietnam War, and many of the authors who produced these books under the auspices of the CIA went on to become respected figures in academia.<ref name=":0" />		In addition to disseminating false stories and fake photos to the press, the CIA has also been involved in the printing of an untold number of books that contain CIA talking points regarding topics such as history and Marxism. According to Stockwell, a thousand of such books were printed during the Vietnam War, and many of the authors who produced these books under the auspices of the CIA went on to become respected figures in academia.<ref name=":0" />
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	The CIA and its front organizations have also taken an interest in funding and being involved with particular ideological currents and philosophical schools, such as can be seen with the CIA's interest in the [[Non-Communist Left]] and the [[Congress for Cultural Freedom]] as well as promotion of the [[Frankfurt School]] and influencing the development of [[critical theory]].<ref>Gabriel Rockhill. [https://mronline.org/2022/07/06/the-cia-the-frankfurt-schools-anti-communism/ “The CIA & the Frankfurt School’s Anti-Communism.”] MR Online. July 6, 2022. [https://web.archive.org/web/20220911102147/https://mronline.org/2022/07/06/the-cia-the-frankfurt-schools-anti-communism/ Archived] 2022-09-11.</ref>		The CIA and its front organizations have also taken an interest in funding and being involved with particular ideological currents and philosophical schools, such as can be seen with the CIA's interest in the [[Non-Communist Left]] and the [[Congress for Cultural Freedom]] as well as promotion of the [[Frankfurt School]] and influencing the development of [[critical theory]].<ref>Gabriel Rockhill. [https://mronline.org/2022/07/06/the-cia-the-frankfurt-schools-anti-communism/ “The CIA & the Frankfurt School’s Anti-Communism.”] MR Online. July 6, 2022. [https://web.archive.org/web/20220911102147/https://mronline.org/2022/07/06/the-cia-the-frankfurt-schools-anti-communism/ Archived] 2022-09-11.</ref>

	The [[National Endowment for Democracy]] (NED) is a notable CIA-related organization used for influencing and supporting anti-communist projects.<ref>{{Web citation\|newspaper=Embassy of the People's Republic of China in the United States of America\|title=Fact Sheet on the National Endowment for Democracy\|date=2022-05-07\|url=http://us.china-embassy.gov.cn/eng/zgyw/202205/t20220507_10683090.htm\|retrieved=2025-06-24}}</ref> The NED exists to fund these projects openly where previously they would have been funded covertly by the CIA.<ref>{{Web citation\|author=Matt Kennard and Mark Curtis\|newspaper=Declassified UK\|title=‘CIA sidekick’ gives £2.6m to UK media groups\|date=2022-01-17\|url=https://www.declassifieduk.org/cia-sidekick-gives-2-6m-to-uk-media-groups/\|retrieved=2025-06-24~~}}</ref>~~		The [[National Endowment for Democracy]] (NED) is a notable CIA-related organization used for influencing and supporting anti-communist projects.<ref>{{Web citation\|newspaper=Embassy of the People's Republic of China in the United States of America\|title=Fact Sheet on the National Endowment for Democracy\|date=2022-05-07\|url=http://us.china-embassy.gov.cn/eng/zgyw/202205/t20220507_10683090.htm\|retrieved=2025-06-24}}</ref> The NED exists to fund these projects openly where previously they would have been funded covertly by the CIA.<ref>{{Web citation\|author=Matt Kennard and Mark Curtis\|newspaper=Declassified UK\|title=‘CIA sidekick’ gives £2.6m to UK media groups\|date=2022-01-17\|url=https://www.declassifieduk.org/cia-sidekick-gives-2-6m-to-uk-media-groups/\|retrieved=2025-06-24}}</ref>

	Media organizations such as [[Voice of America]], [[Radio Free Asia]], and [[Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty\|Radio Liberty]] also promote CIA propaganda. In particular, [[Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty\|Radio Liberty]] was funded by the CIA until 1971.<ref>{{Citation\|author=Cord Meyer\|year=2000\|title=The CIA and Radio Free Europe\|title-url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/43134017}}</ref>

	The CIA has also experimented with mind control techniques, such as with [[Project MKUltra\|Project MKULTRA]].<ref>{{Web citation\|author=Brianna Nofil\|newspaper=History.com\|title=The CIA's Appalling Human Experiments With Mind Control\|url=https://www.history.com/mkultra-operation-midnight-climax-cia-lsd-experiments\|archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/kaGNZ\|archive-date=2025-09-05\|retrieved=2025-09-05}}</ref>		The CIA has also experimented with mind control techniques, such as with [[Project MKUltra\|Project MKULTRA]].<ref>{{Web citation\|author=Brianna Nofil\|newspaper=History.com\|title=The CIA's Appalling Human Experiments With Mind Control\|url=https://www.history.com/mkultra-operation-midnight-climax-cia-lsd-experiments\|archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/kaGNZ\|archive-date=2025-09-05\|retrieved=2025-09-05}}</ref>

	Writing in 1977, the journalist [[Carl Bernstein]] listed Columbia Broadcasting System, Time Inc., the New York Times, Louisville Courier‑Journal, the Copley News Service, the American Broadcasting Company, the National Broadcasting Company, the Associated Press, United Press International, Reuters, Hearst Newspapers, Scripps‑Howard, Newsweek magazine, the Mutual Broadcasting System, the Miami Herald, the Saturday Evening Post and the New York Herald‑Tribune as media outlets that cooperated with the CIA''.''<ref>{{Web citation\|author=Carl Bernstein\|newspaper=Rolling Stone\|title=The CIA and the Media\|date=1977-10-20\|url=https://www.carlbernstein.com/magazine_cia_and_media.php\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071026060752/https://www.carlbernstein.com/magazine_cia_and_media.php\|archive-date=2007-10-26\|retrieved=2025-06-23\|quote=Among the executives who lent their cooperation to the Agency were William Paley of the Columbia Broadcasting System, Henry Luce of Time Inc., Arthur Hays Sulzberger of the New York Times, Barry Bingham Sr. of the LouisviIle Courier‑Journal, and James Copley of the Copley News Service. Other organizations which cooperated with the CIA include the American Broadcasting Company, the National Broadcasting Company, the Associated Press, United Press International, Reuters, Hearst Newspapers, Scripps‑Howard, Newsweek magazine, the Mutual Broadcasting System, the Miami Herald and the old Saturday Evening Post and New York Herald‑Tribune.}}</ref>

	=== Running secret wars ===		=== Running secret wars ===

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			* [[:Category:Library works about the CIA\|List of works about the CIA on ProleWiki]]

	=== Books and articles ===		=== Books and articles ===

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	=== Other CIA personnel and agents ===		=== Other CIA personnel and agents ===
	CIA station chiefs are the top officers of a CIA station, which is a CIA office. Operations officers carry out the operations of a station.<ref>{{Web citation\|author=Barbara Bean-Mellinger\|newspaper=CHRON.\|title=CIA Agent vs. Station Chief\|url=https://work.chron.com/cia-agent-vs-station-chief-24145.html\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250918055958/https://work.chron.com/cia-agent-vs-station-chief-24145.html\|archive-date=2025-09-18\|retrieved=2025-09-18\|quote=Overseas offices of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) are officially called CIA stations. [...] According to the CIA, operations officers are assigned to carry out the missions, or operations, of a station.}}</ref> Case officers are the officers whose job it is to recruit and handle local sources in the country of operation. Recruited local sources are known as agents.<ref>{{Web citation\|author=Luis Rueda\|newspaper=Debrief\|title=The Case Officer - Agent Relationship\|date=2022-04-29\|url=https://www.debriefarundown.com/post/the-case-officer-agent-relationship\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250918055146/https://www.debriefarundown.com/post/the-case-officer-agent-relationship\|archive-date=2025-09-18\|quote=At the heart of all HUMINT operations is the relationship between the case officer and the agent [...] case officers, also known as operations officers, are professional intelligence officers whose job is to recruit and handle human sources for the purpose of collecting intelligence. Agents are those sources recruited by the case officer.}}</ref> Case officers engage in networking as they seek out potential sources and carry out station operations, with many working at US embassies. Former case officer John Stockwell has described CIA officers as "ranking privileged members of the police brotherhood of the world" who are not in danger, and who establish liaison with the police in every country where they can, saying "they're not fearful and they're not playing cover games. They're having lunch with the police chief."<ref>{{Library citation\|link=Library:Interview with former CIA agent John Stockwell\|quote=Everyone always knows who the CIA people are, let there be no doubt whatsoever. This is one of the biggest farces that the CIA and Congress have put on the American people. We--as Moynihan said, Patrick Moynihan said, in testifying against this Official Secrets Act recently--he said at the UN, he said, they swaggered around like Texas cowboys in 10-gallon hats and high-heeled boots.		CIA station chiefs are the top officers of a CIA station, which is a CIA office. Operations officers carry out the operations of a station.<ref>{{Web citation\|author=Barbara Bean-Mellinger\|newspaper=CHRON.\|title=CIA Agent vs. Station Chief\|url=https://work.chron.com/cia-agent-vs-station-chief-24145.html\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250918055958/https://work.chron.com/cia-agent-vs-station-chief-24145.html\|archive-date=2025-09-18\|retrieved=2025-09-18\|quote=Overseas offices of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) are officially called CIA stations. [...] According to the CIA, operations officers are assigned to carry out the missions, or operations, of a station.}}</ref> Case officers are the officers whose job it is to recruit and handle local sources in the country of operation. Recruited local sources are known as agents.<ref>{{Web citation\|author=Luis Rueda\|newspaper=Debrief\|title=The Case Officer - Agent Relationship\|date=2022-04-29\|url=https://www.debriefarundown.com/post/the-case-officer-agent-relationship\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250918055146/https://www.debriefarundown.com/post/the-case-officer-agent-relationship\|archive-date=2025-09-18\|quote=At the heart of all HUMINT operations is the relationship between the case officer and the agent [...] case officers, also known as operations officers, are professional intelligence officers whose job is to recruit and handle human sources for the purpose of collecting intelligence. Agents are those sources recruited by the case officer.}}</ref> Case officers engage in networking as they seek out potential sources and carry out station operations, with many working at US embassies.<ref>{{Web citation\|author=Frank Snepp\|title=[[Library:CIA Officer Frank Snepp Discusses Planting Stories in Vietnam \| "CIA Officer Frank Snepp Discusses Planting Stories in Vietnam."]]\|date=1983\|quote=In Saigon, I had various covers. I was a State Department officer; I was a military officer at one time. But everybody I dealt with—agents, journalists—knew that I worked for the CIA.}}</ref> Former case officer John Stockwell has described CIA officers as "ranking privileged members of the police brotherhood of the world" who are not in danger, and who establish liaison with the police in every country where they can, saying "they're not fearful and they're not playing cover games. They're having lunch with the police chief."<ref>{{Library citation\|link=Library:Interview with former CIA agent John Stockwell\|quote=Everyone always knows who the CIA people are, let there be no doubt whatsoever. This is one of the biggest farces that the CIA and Congress have put on the American people. We--as Moynihan said, Patrick Moynihan said, in testifying against this Official Secrets Act recently--he said at the UN, he said, they swaggered around like Texas cowboys in 10-gallon hats and high-heeled boots.

	In Vietnam we had yellow Datsuns and sequential license plates. So if you had a yellow Datsun and "144" on your license plate, you had to be CIA, and everybody knew it. Up country, we had emerald green Jeeps, and the army had olive drab and AID had gray Jeeps. And if you had a green, green Jeep, you had to be CIA. And any denial of that was only tongue-in-cheek, perfunctory. Certainly, journalists knew the difference. [...] Allen Dulles wrote in his book The Craft of Intelligence, you know, the famous CIA Director, in the foreword of his book he says an intelligence agent, contrary to popular opinion, has to be known as such, otherwise people with secrets won't know where to take them. He set up the policy, the precedent of traveling the world each year and assembling his case officers in hotels, and having what you could only describe as a sales conference. Meetings in the hotel rooms, breakfast, lunch, and dinner and drinks together in the hotel rooms. [...] So, you're talking--so, you're talking about not an underworld, you're talking about ranking privileged members of the police brotherhood of the world. CIA officers are not in danger. Tourists don't hit them. In every country where they can, they establish liaison with the local police. And inside the veils of, you know, their secrecy and protection, they're not fearful and they're not playing cover games. They're having lunch with the police chief.}}</ref>		In Vietnam we had yellow Datsuns and sequential license plates. So if you had a yellow Datsun and "144" on your license plate, you had to be CIA, and everybody knew it. Up country, we had emerald green Jeeps, and the army had olive drab and AID had gray Jeeps. And if you had a green, green Jeep, you had to be CIA. And any denial of that was only tongue-in-cheek, perfunctory. Certainly, journalists knew the difference. [...] Allen Dulles wrote in his book The Craft of Intelligence, you know, the famous CIA Director, in the foreword of his book he says an intelligence agent, contrary to popular opinion, has to be known as such, otherwise people with secrets won't know where to take them. He set up the policy, the precedent of traveling the world each year and assembling his case officers in hotels, and having what you could only describe as a sales conference. Meetings in the hotel rooms, breakfast, lunch, and dinner and drinks together in the hotel rooms. [...] So, you're talking--so, you're talking about not an underworld, you're talking about ranking privileged members of the police brotherhood of the world. CIA officers are not in danger. Tourists don't hit them. In every country where they can, they establish liaison with the local police. And inside the veils of, you know, their secrecy and protection, they're not fearful and they're not playing cover games. They're having lunch with the police chief.}}</ref>
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	== See also ==		== See also ==

	* [[Interview with former CIA agent John Stockwell]]
	* [[List of atrocities commited by the United States of America\|List of atrocities committed by the United States of America]]		* [[List of atrocities commited by the United States of America\|List of atrocities committed by the United States of America]]
	* [[United States imperialism]]		* [[United States imperialism]]
			* [[:Category:Imperialist secret police\|Imperialist secret police]]
	*[[National Endowment for Democracy]]		*[[National Endowment for Democracy]]
	*[[United States Department of State]]		*[[United States Department of State]]
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	*[[Operation Cyclone]]		*[[Operation Cyclone]]

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			=== Books and articles ===

			* [[Library:Killing Hope\|Killing Hope: U.S. Military and C.I.A. Interventions since World War II]]
			* [[Library:Washington Bullets\|Washington Bullets]]
			* [[Library:The CIA & the Frankfurt School's Anti-Communism\|The CIA & the Frankfurt School's Anti-Communism]]
			* [[Library:The CIA's Shining Path: Political Warfare\|The CIA's Shining Path: Political Warfare]]

			=== Interviews ===

			* [[Library:Interview with former CIA agent John Stockwell\|Interview with former CIA agent John Stockwell]]
			* [[Library:CIA Officer Frank Snepp Discusses Planting Stories in Vietnam\|CIA Officer Frank Snepp Discusses Planting Stories in Vietnam]]
			* [[Library:John Pilger interviews former CIA Latin America chief Duane Clarridge, 2015\|John Pilger interviews former CIA Latin America chief Duane Clarridge]]

	== External links ==		== External links ==

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