Does the CIA do more harm or good?

Question

That CIA was created just after the end of World War II, by President Harry Truman, despite it being opposed by the military establishment and the State Department at the time. “After World War II, many scientists who had worked in Nazi Germany were extracted from Germany in order to aid the U.S.; their recruitment was under the aegis of Operation Paperclip. The CIA had also been aware of the location of some high-profile Nazi war criminals, including the whereabouts of Adolf Eichmann two years before he was captured by Israeli agents, but the agency did not publicize this information, as it did not have a policy of pursuing Nazi war criminals at the time.[25] Several former Nazi operational agents were recruited as U.S. secret agents, yet formed just a minor portion of the agents at that time; they were induced financially and promised exemption from criminal prosecution and trial for war crimes committed during World War II.[26] Some claim that these agents had a long-term corrosive effect on American intelligence agencies.[27] There were extensive relationships between former Nazi war criminals and American and West German intelligence organizations, including the CIA. For example, current records show that at least five associates of the notorious Nazi Adolf Eichmann worked for the CIA, 23 other Nazis were approached by the CIA for recruitment, and at least 100 officers within the Gehlen organization were former SD or Gestapo officers.
During the Cold War, the CIA supported many dictators, including General Augusto Pinochet of Chile; dictators in Central America, African Dictators like Mobutu Sese Seko and Jonas Savimbi, the Shah of Iran, and the religious despots in Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Kuwait and Indonesia,

John Stockwell, formerly a high-level CIA operative, claims that six million people have been killed by the United States in the Third World countries. This claim includes the deaths in the Korea and Vietnam wars that Stockwell feels should be blamed on the United States government.[28]

Numerous accusations have been made that the CIA has been involved in drug trafficking to fund illegal operations in Nicaragua during their civil war, Afghanistan during the Soviet invasion, and in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. According to a personal account by Everett Ellis Briggs, former U.S. Ambassador to Panama and Honduras, CIA undermined efforts to put a stop to the drug smuggling

Western Vietnam and Eastern Cambodia had some opium fields. It was widely alleged among various soldiers-turned-antiwar protesters that the CIA was involved in smuggling this opium to heroin producers in the United States at considerable profit. The book The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia written by Alfred W. McCoy, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison claims to provide evidence of the drug trafficking. The book discusses the alleged use of opium to fund covert operations done by the CIA in Vietnam. According to Dr. McCoy, the agency also intimidated his sources and tried to keep the book from being published, citing national security concerns.”

• During the Vietnam war the CIA conducted Operation Phoenix, an assassination program. The goal was not only to eliminate those Vietnamese who might oppose the U.S. (which in practice meant most of the population of Vietnam) but also to terrorize the entire population of South Vietnam and to suppress opposition to the occupying U.S. forces. Over 20,000 Vietnamese were murdered, often at random.
• The CIA also recruited a mercenary army in Vietnam (financed by profits from the CIA's heroin smuggling), particularly from among the Hmong villagers, which was used to terrorize the civilian population and to prevent them from assisting the Viet Cong.
• The CIA organized and financed (with the profits from its cocaine smuggling) the activities of the Contras in Nicaragua, who murdered tens of thousands of civilians, and tried to disrupt the economy, in an attempt to destabilize the legitimate Sandinista government. (For this the U.S. was condemned in the World Court for engaging in international terrorism, and it rejected a U.N. security council resolution calling upon it to observe international law.)
• The CIA planned and organized the military coup d'etat in 1973 in Chile which overthrew the legitimately elected government of Salvador Allende (because he would not implement economic policies designed in Washington to favor American corporations doing business in Chile) and brought to power the regime of General Augusto Pinochet; this regime abducted, tortured and killed thousands of Chilean citizens in an attempt to suppress opposition.
• The CIA organized and supported the Turkish government's persecution of its Kurdish minority during the 1990s, resulting in tens of thousands of deaths and millions of refuges; the aim being the suppression of Kurdish culture and the elimination of Kurdish demands for a separate state.

Not to mention the many assainations, illegal and domestic spying on US citizens, Nazis, drugs, but I this is all supposed to be for the benefit of the American Public? Right…….

I forgot to mention the Mafia connections and assassination plots

President Kennedy had changed his mind on the Cold War, had stopped nuclear testing in the atmosphere, and signed an order to start withdrawing troops from Vietnam. Kennedy promised to shatter the CIA into a thousand pieces, and the CIA shattered Kennedy into a thousand pieces

Answer 1

After 9/11 investigation, we found that both CIA and FBI did us more harm than good.

Answer 2

I have got this niggling feeling that you have posted this question, just different wording, under another profile. Just in case it wasn't you, I will tell you the same thing. Whenever anyone state Barack HUSSEIN Obama, I smile. It means that they are frustrated, upset and fearful that a black, intelligent, intellectual, honest man is headed for the Whitehouse. There have been a lot of similar question today. all frustrated, upset, angry and some racially motivated. Keep it up, please. It shows the scaremongers, trying hard to get their message across, because it is obvious that Obama is headed towards the Presidency. It is also obvious that this type of question, is harming Hillary Clinton and making more votes for Obama. So, thank you again. Keep it coming! The more questions like this, the more votes Obama will get.

Answer 3

well, like any intelligence agency...the only time you hear about them are when they mess up...

yeah, you should also tell the Germans to disband their intelligence agency because they let the terrorists go on Munich but a couple of weeks ago, they stopped a plot...

There is dirt on all of them...the world is not a safe and happy place, sometimes you have to fight fire with fire.

Answer 4

They are the best weapon against the war on terror. Direct military conflict is counterproductive. This is a subtle point that most conservatives fail to grasp.

Answer 5

More harm. That organization is Unconstitutional and should be disbanded.

Answer 6

I stopped reading you rambling gibberish after a few sentences. I hope you addressed this point.

The CIA is hobbled by the Democrat Party that wants our enemies to destroy America, and especially by the lawyer.