This is the Friends of History Debating Society. I'm John Bachelor.

Dramaticus is Michael Leos. Once about a time his author ego, Michael Leos, worked for the CIA.

In other words, he was inside the building. That's all you had to be in the

building once for me to talk to you about this because I am Gaius, but I've been reading

about the CIA. There's a new book. I recommend to everyone who wants entertainment, light entertainment about

the Cold War.

It's called the sisterhood.

It's about the women of the CIA were treated as the typing pool for the early decades.

Might still be true, but I don't think so.

I think there are many women professionals at the Central Intelligence Agency, but I'm not here to speak well to the CIA, because

C. A. Because Michael, what I'm learning is that the CIA is the seventh grade with guns.

And we have a series of men recruited by first oh out of the

OSS I guess but the the big turn came when Beatles Smith took over and hired

Alan Dulles to run operations.

There was the turn.

There was the romance that didn't actually exist and since Alan Dulles

was hired and its first great success with the Bay of pigs, good heavens!

That's when he exited the firm. Ever since then, I puzzle.

Help me, Germanicus, what's the CIA for?

The only people that's denying information to are the American people that support it, that pay for it.

So what is the mission here in the 21st century observed from the 1st century AD. What is their mission?

The CIA was created as a, um, how shall I put this?

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