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*[ Split the CIA in Two Parts! ]*
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Marchetti: (continued)
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One, the good CIA so to speak, would collect and analyze
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information. The other part, in the dirty tricks business,
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would be very small and very tightly controlled by Congress and
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the White House, and if possible, some kind of a public board so
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that it didn't get out of control.
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My theory is, and I've proved it over and over again along
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with other people, is that the basic reason for secrecy is not
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to keep the enemy from knowing what you're doing.
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He knows what you're doing because he's the target of it, and
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he's not stupid. The reason for the CIA to hide behind secrecy
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is to keep the public, and in particular the American public,
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from knowing what they're doing.
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This is done so that the President can deny that we were
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responsible for sabotaging some place over in Lebanon where a lot
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of people were killed. So that the President can deny, period.
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Here is a good example:
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President Eisenhower denied we were involved in attempts to
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overthrow the Indonesian government in 1958 until the CIA guys
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got caught and the Indonesians produced them. He looked like
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a fool. So did the N.Y. Times and everybody else who believed
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him. That is the real reason for secrecy.
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There is a second reason for secrecy. That is that if the public
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doesn't know what you are doing you can lie to them because they
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don't know what the truth is.
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This is a very bad part of the CIA because this is where you
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get not only propaganda on the American people but actually
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disinformation, which is to say lies and falsehoods, peddled to
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the American public as the truth and which they accept as gospel.
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That's wrong. It's not only wrong, its a lie and it allows the
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government and those certain elements of the government that can
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hide behind secrecy to get away with things that nobody knows about.
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If you carefully analyze all of these issues that keep coming up in
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Congress over the CIA, this is always what is at the heart of it:
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That the CIA lied about it, or that the CIA misrepresented something,
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or the White House did it, because the CIA and the White House
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work hand in glove.
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The CIA is not a power unto itself. It is an instrument of power.
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A tool. A very powerful tool which has an influence on
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whoever is manipulating it.
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