The CIA is known to be involved in criminal activities all over the world, some of them quite deadly and others quite provocative, as they are laying the groundwork for large-scale military conflicts, which are happening in many countries. This is not unique to the US. America learned some of this from Britain, who in turn learned it in the 19th century when they became the world’s dominant empire. You’ve already gritted your teeth on this one.
Other large powers certainly have the will and the capacity to conduct these types of operations, as do smaller ones. Israel is an example. The CIA has its roots in the Office of Strategic Intelligence, established during World War II. Its early years were interesting, as the new president, Harry Truman, distrusted the OSS, arguing that it was partially dominated by Democrats who were not aligned with him, and thus abolished the OSS. Then, from the remnants of the old OSS, they first created a smaller intelligence agency called the Central Intelligence Unit. And focus on intelligence analysis. This is not a covert operations agency.
One inbox would be where all the information would go, whether it was intercepted communications, satellite photos, defector reports, or classified reports, messages… would go to that one person and that person would be “in charge”. There’s going to be a guy who’s going to look at it, check that stuff, and if it’s important, as long as it’s a good analysis, it can end up on the president’s desk the next morning, an uncorrupted synthesis of information .
About two years later, many agents who had worked in covert operations, paramilitary warfare, black ops, and more were found in a facility called the Office of Policy Coordination. This “bureau” eventually grew to about 5,000 agents in the early days of the Cold War, and its very existence was top secret. It had no public existence at all, and it was only a few years later that the Office of Policy Coordination was absorbed into the CIA, and the CIA became an agency. The CIA has both a black ops unit and an intelligence analysis unit.
The OPC was formed to organize propaganda, economic warfare, preventive direct action, sabotage, sabotage, subversion of enemy states, including support of underground resistance groups and support of native anti-communist elements in threatened countries of the free world.
What happened at the end of WWII when Truman dismantled the OSS? Undercover agents were out in the wild for a while, some of them were top Wall Street bankers and lawyers, which has some logic since there were relatively few people who dealt with international trade and international law before the war, and they were experts in international affairs in the United States; e.g. , who later became the head of CIA covert operations, Black Ops, was a guy named Frank Wisner, a fairly well-known Wall Street lawyer.
