Chuck Barris

The CIA’s involvement in the killing of JFK is one of the popular theories put forward by conspiracy theorists. President Kennedy was said to have told an official in his administration, “I want to splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it to the winds” (McGovern, 2013, para. 3). Many of the individuals who disliked Kennedy believed he was the reason for the failed Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961. They also believed that he would reduce the size of the military industrial complex and that he was not going after communism hard enough. The CIA was involved

International Business Times suggests that maybe the CIA was in on it. With the men

as an immense threat that would lead to their ultimate demise and had motive to kill him because

“Before I tell you you have to promise me you won’t change your opinion about me.

To get a clear view and understanding of the book, first must review the time period in history. The book was written in the mid 1950's during the cold war. Former General McCarthy, then U.S. Senator started a fire ball of suspicion, suppression, and

Established Politico writer, Philip Shenon, in his article on the assassination of John F. Kennedy, distinguishes the CIA had further involvement with the assassination than they would like us to believe. Shenon’s purpose is to analyze the possibility that the CIA director, John McCone, hid agency secrets that covered up facts of the assassination. He applies a passionate tone in order to offer an explanation to his fellow conspiracy theorists.

The title of the book had provided a foreshowing because “Obsolete” meaning no longer active or replacing it with something new. Chuck Palahniuk had illustrated the character in the story whom no longer want human race and replace it with new race known as emigration (killing themselves). When the community start to realize that there was after life, after watching the news that the astronaut went to Venus and found Garden of Eden which was the heaven. The government set an order that everyone should go and kill themselves. As it seems people rather want to go to heaven and not wanting to stand on earth. Everyone starting to commit suicide even Eve’s brother Larry wanting to commit suicide. However, Eve was showing disapprove about this idea,

There are thousands of sport teams, from high school to professional, that have mascots that reference Native American culture. In an increasingly diverse and conscientious American culture, the question still stands is it appropriate for teams to continue to use mascots that appropriate another culture? John Barr reminds us that “I think that what I would encourage you to do and everyone else to do is just look at the history, understand where the name came from, understand that it means… honor, it means respect, it means pride. And it’s that simple” (Wulf). Barr’s point is that when teams pick this name it is an honor to be called a Native American name. In Barr’s point I would highly agree with him because, my family takes heart to that.

David Berkowitz, who would grow up to terrorize the streets of New York in a year long reign, was born on June 1, 1953 to Betty Broder and Joseph Kleinman in Brooklyn, New York. Mr. Kleinman, not wanting another child, told Betty to put the child up for adoption.

Ranking first in my class, publishing a note on law review, and the numerous other academic accolades in my resume demonstrate my intellectual, analytical, and functional capacity and qualifications for a position with the CIA. My respect and appreciation for what it means to be a public servant as well as my integrity, however, are what distinguishes me from the plethora of qualified candidates that are undoubtedly applying for this position. The gravity of my experiences ranging from the consideration of compassionate release motions with the Bureau of Prisons to intimate discussions with litigants at the military commissions in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, amongst many other experiences, have sculpted the ethical standards I bind myself

On May 6th 2069 the CIA inducted a new agent, Allen Marks. Allen Marks was a Black Ops agent. Ops so dark that when the war was over the CIA was going to put him on trial for war crimes. Allen Marks wasn't going to survive the war. He would be sent or sentenced to death.

“We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.” This statement was made by William Casey, the director of the CIA in 1981. It begs the question: how exactly did the CIA plan to accomplish it’s malicious agenda on such a massive scale? In 1975 Operation Mockingbird was revealed to the public as a result of investigations held by the Select Committee in regards to intelligence activities of the governement. According to the Congress report published in 1976: “The CIA currently maintains a network of several hundred foreign individuals around the world who provide intelligence for the CIA and at times attempt to influence opinion through the use of covert propaganda. These individuals provide the CIA with direct access to a large number of newspapers and periodicals, scores of press services and news agencies, radio and television stations, commercial book publishers, and other foreign media outlets.”

The CIA’s scandal is closely related to President Nixon’s Watergate scandal. “On June 17, 1972, five men were arrested during a bungled break-in at the Democratic campaign headquarters at the Watergate hotel-apartment complex in Washington, D.C.” In June President Nixon and his Chief of Staff, Haldeman, were recorded on tape agreeing to order the CIA to disrupt the FBI’s investigation into the break-in at the Democratic National Committee. The following month the presidential tapes were made aware by the testimony of Alexander Butterfield. After these tapes were released the Watergate scandal was brought to a whole new level because now the white house was officially involved.(Zivich)This made people start to really question the government itself.

During mid-1970s, the disclosure of CIA misconducts had significantly damaged the agency. Agency’s focus had mainly shifted to passive intelligence collection and analysis. Covert operations were highly criticized and many intelligence officers were terminated. By 1980, Reagan’s transitional team and many conservatives believed that the agency had failed to do its job and was clearly ineffective in dealing with the Soviet Union (Encyclopedia of World Biography, 2010). In 1981, after Reagan took office, by selecting Casey as DCI, he pursued to rebuild the CIA’s capability to take political and military actions in foreign countries, particularly against the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc. Having the OSS experience during WWII, Casey had strong faith in the agency's purpose and the role it could play in support of the administrations’ policies. Casey reversed the CIA’s downfall by increasing the budget and the number of personnel; and sought to rebuild the agency’s morale. Under his leadership, the CIA expanded its support for several anticommunist insurgent organizations and significantly increased the number of covert operations in various developing countries such as Afghanistan, Angola, and several countries in Central America (Center for the Study of Intelligence, 2016). This increased the agency’s need for more money; therefore, Casey asked Congress to provide the agency with more funds to support the Afghan guerrilla fighters. Due to the success of Islamic revolution in Iran overthrowing one of the most important U.S. allies in the region, Tehran’s hostage crises, and the Soviet’s invasion of Afghanistan, Americans’ mood shifted from the post-Vietnam sentiment. Therefore, Congress tripled the amount of Casey's original fund request. By channeling massive amounts of aid to the anti-Soviet insurgents in Afghanistan, CIA started the largest covert operation

The term “Covert Action” brings with it a connotation of shadowy figures wrapped in secrecy and intrigue. It also brings with it a substantial amount of moral questions as to “what is right.” The use of covert action has been widely publicized since the early seventies, but trying to find out the truth to these events has been difficult to say the least. What is even more difficult, is historically recording these events into categories of successes or failures. These operations are difficult to dissect because of their secrecy and although events have been recorded, some facts simply aren’t apparent. This paper will seek to identify the complex issues associated with covert operations.