RICHARD M. BISSELL JR.

Our agency (the Central Intelligence Agency) is the last refuge of organizational privacy available to the U. S. Government.

… a major threat to regional stability.

In most covert operations … particularly those that have a large paramilitary component, the planning for later stages is very incomplete. The outcome of the first stages of the operation is usually so difficult to predict that it wouldn't have seemed sensible to have planned the later stages. One can plan the first phases, but not what happens next

… a major threat to regional stability.

In most covert operations … particularly those that have a large paramilitary component, the planning for later stages is very incomplete. The outcome of the first stages of the operation is usually so difficult to predict that it wouldn't have seemed sensible to have planned the later stages. One can plan the first phases, but not what happens next

Our agency (the Central Intelligence Agency) is the last refuge of organizational privacy available to the U. S. Government.