CIA Deception Quotes

The CIA has never denied this, and it seems to be corroborated in that none of the CIA reports to the Presidents ever mentioned the failures and there is no CIA official who ever claimed that they informed either of the Presidents. In particular, when Kennedy initially went along with the ill-fated CIA Bay of Pigs invasion plan not realizing that the CIA had a dismal record of major misjudgments and failures of covert operations.

Helms, then Deputy CIA Director, and other CIA witnesses, even though under oath, covered up the fact that they had initiated and failed in a number of attempts to assassinate Fidel Castro which since became public knowledge. There may well have been other CIA motivations for misleading the commission. The fact that they did, as well as the FBI which also was not truthful with the commission, has led credence to all the wild conspiracy theories that people have come up with about the assassination. See {642340}.

A large part of the report had been devoted to proving by exposure of CIA internal documents that the CIA had repeatedly and frequently lied, to Congress, the American people and perhaps to the President himself. The CIA director and other officials of the agency, in trying to justify their actions, continued to diverge from the truth. The behavior criticized by the report involved CIA Directors before Brennan; however the CIA insular, protective culture is so strong that he would lose the loyalty of much of the CIA staff if he did not continue to maintain the “party line”. The CIA has a long history of lying to the public, and to the Congress—including the oversight committees, and on a number of occasions to the President himself.