James G. Stavridis Quotes
Internal fights between various agencies, i.e. between the CIA and FBI, are highly counterproductive.
Stavridis, James G. The Accidental Admiral: A Sailor Takes Command at NATO. Naval Institute Press, 2014.
When he became a candidate, he modified this position and stated that he would abolish both agencies spying on Americans activities but not necessarily abolish all the functions of the agency.
This was a critical shortcoming in that the NSA had the personnel for electronic intelligence. It was the major job of the CIA to place human agents—abroad—who could act as spies and/or recruit or manage spies.
We bombed the building but it was the Chinese embassy. The map and intelligence as to what was in the building was provided as a recommended target by the CIA in another of their serious blunders.
Oswald was the assassin of President John F. Kennedy.
See {642341} for the CIA role in obstructing the Warren Commission investigation. The FBI also withheld evidence about their contacts with Oswald. The investigators for the Commission only came from the two agencies that had much to hide and who lied to the commission.
The inoming President was meeting with and getting briefed by the Director of National Intelligenc, James Clapper and this is the word he used to descrive the American Intelligence Agencies.
James George Stavridis is a retired United States Navy admiral, and bestselling author, currently an operating executive with the Carlyle Group and chair of the board of counselors at McLarty Associates. His novel, "2034: A Novel of the Next World War," was co-written with Elliot Ackerman and published in March, 2021. It debuted at #6 on the New York Times bestseller list. In August 2018, he stepped down as the dean of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, a graduate school for international affairs. Stavridis serves as the chief international diplomacy and national security analyst for NBC News in New York. He is also chair Emeritus of the Board of Directors of the U.S. Naval Institute and a senior fellow at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.
