Summary: The Unintended Consequences Of The Formation Of CIA

The CIA, otherwise known as the Central Intelligence Agency, is a federal agency that is independent and has the responsibilities of providing the country of the United States with national security intelligence. The CIA is in charge of gathering information that is going on from other countries in order to help our own national security to become stronger, and to be able to protect the citizens of the United States better. However, what happens when the CIA tries to protect it’s citizens by screwing over other countries? What happens when the CIA is responsible for destroying other countries’ governments or placing leaders where we do not belong as a country to try and control politics that we should not even be involving ourselves in. While the CIA is meant to have good intentions for providing our country with national security, a lot of times the United States is responsible for meddling in affairs we never belonged in which cause harm, devastation, or death to the countries we force ourselves upon.

Named by Calvin Coolidge as the sixth director of the Bureau of Investigation, J. Edgar Hoover quickly rose to greatness. In 1935, he was appointed by U. S. Attorney General Stone as the first director of the newly conceived F.B.I. For the next 36 years he made all of the rules, declared war on everything he disliked or that opposed his morals and personal beliefs from “Bolshevik radicals” to Martin Luther King, he hindered the progress of the civil rights movement, and used force to eradicate every suspected communist. While he brought about myriad investigative technology, including fingerprints, wire-tapping, and forensics labs that forever changed the criminal justice system, he also used the F.B.I. to intimidate celebrities and public figures, harass political activists, and illegally collect secret files of evidence and scandals against everyone. In truth, Hoover was a malicious and hypocritical man; under the guise of protecting the “American way,” his motto was “knowledge is power,” but after the Great Depression when the world changed, he didn’t

The CIA is recognized as an intelligence-driven and threat-focused national security organization that works with confidential fiscal and administrative procedures, although have fallen through loop holes and broken some rules and regualtions. The case of CIA v. Wesley Swearingen will aid in conducting towards proving that the CIA is corrupt. Wesley Swearingen, an ex-FBI agent from 1951 until he retired in 1977 perpetrated and witnessed numerous violations of law by FBI and CIA agents and their operatives, heard revealing statements by other agents about their illegal activities, and read files that had documented violations of the rights of American citizens. Swearingen states that “activities of FBI agents and their ‘informers’ included warrantless

The U.S. government responded to Pearl Harbor and the 9/11 with Congressional commissions to provide full accounts on how these fateful events transpired and used the data to make changes within the Intelligence Community (IC) in hopes to prevent future such attacks. The Roberts authority, which focused on the events of Pearl Harbor, precipitated the creation of the OSS or Office of Strategic Services in 1942, the precursor to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Similarly, the 9/11 Authority appealed to Congress

During World War II the FBI had to report Fascist and Communists as a threat to America. Agents trained in general intelligence were sent to FBI headquarters all over the world. In 1940 the FBI started helping the Allies. During this time the FBI arrested American citizens from Japan, Germany, etc.

Empowered by its authority over budget funding , Congress came up in 1991 with enhanced formula to streamline the information flow upon prevalence of “ extraordinary circumstances affecting vital interests of the United States” 9 The new formula authorized the President to bypass the full quorum of the congressional intelligence committees, and only notify the ‘Gang of Eight,’ and any other congressional leaders he elects to inform. Members of the ‘Gang of Eight’ include “ the chairmen and ranking Members of the two congressional intelligence committees and the House and Senate majority and minority leadership”10 (Erwin 2013, 1).

When President Franklin D Roosevelt was in office he felt that there was a lack in american intelligence and that there needed to be more of an emphasis on it to help further protect and be prepared on our home soil. Roosevelt looked to William J Donovan who was a Lawyer in New York to come up with some ideas for a service/organization on intelligence. One of Donavan's ideas came to light and in June of 1942 The Office of Strategic Services was established. The purpose of The Office of Strategic Services was collect and analyze information and conduct special operations that other agencies weren’t. “During the war the OSS provided facts and intelligence and they also played a role in aiding military campaigns, but the OSS didn't have full jurisdiction over all foreign intelligence” (Pike. J. CIA, December 1992). With them not being able to obtain all the intelligence that they would like, they were unable to be as effective as the department was sought out to be. The FBI since the 1930s were the only department that was responsible for gaining intel in South America. The OSS only lasted about 3 years, in October of 1945 The Office of Strategic Services was no longer a active

The beginning of our present day Counter Intelligence (CI) began after WWII with the combined efforts of the U.S. X-2 branch of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Special Intelligence Services (SIS). These offices gave way to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) responsible for countering activities of foreign intelligence services in the U.S. and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) responsible for coordinating U.S. counterintelligence activities in foreign countries. Within the framework of the development of the United States of America there was not a devised explanation for the use of intelligence within the armed forces. Spies were present during the Revolutionary war. Washington had a spy ring organized called the Culper Ring organized by Colonel Benjamin Tallmadge, spying on the British in New York City. The Culper spies sent messages back to Washington divulging information on British activities at their headquarters based in New York city, as explained in Alexander Rose’s book “Washington’s Spies: the story of America’s first spy Ring”. The need for a CI mission in the U.S. during the Cold War after WWII was paramount to the protection of the U.S. against enemy treats and ability to gain information that would support the U.S. power to negotiate. During WWII the OSS and the SIS mirrored the British intelligence services structure and in combination developed methods of signals intelligence that helped to break

The CIA is interrogating two prisoners. The prisoner admits to the CIA that ISIS is planning another attack on United States in one of the major cities. He will not admit this information unless he is guaranteed that he will not be prosecuted or executed for being a part of ISIS. The other prisoner is guilty of carrying out bombing several government buildings in Washington D.C. He is responsible for murdering over 100 people. The CIA is only allowed to execute one of prisoners due to the President concern for other important issues. Would would you do?

The CIA was created in 1946, not only to control and withhold secret information for policy makers, but also to fix rivalry and distrust between civilian agencies and military intelligence services. This was previously the job of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Office of Strategic Services (OSS). The CIA also notoriously contains documentation of U.S. initiated torture.

The United States has had a long and complicated journey with intelligence. Throughout its early history, the United States had a sporadic relationship with the intelligence community, only utilizing intelligence during wartime. After World War II, it became clear that the United States needed to enhance its intelligence gathering systems in order to prevent another disaster of this magnitude. Reacting to this pressure, policymakers soon drafted and passed the National Intelligence Act of 1947, creating the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the United States’ first peacetime intelligence agency. Though not always entirely authorized to do so, the CIA has carried out many covert operations with varying levels of success. Despite the fact that some of these operations have been a success, covert operations have largely been a detriment to the United States; covert operations hurt the United States’ public image, rarely fix the original problem entirely, and were not meant, by those who drafter the National Intelligence Act of 1947, to be carried out by the CIA.

During WWII, the creation of the OSS was a significant improvement in gathering intelligence on foreign spies and enemies of the state. Roosevelt created the OSS with the purpose of uniting the often-divided Army and Navy intelligence gathering services that often concealed information from each other in terms of a quasi-military rivalry in the Armed Forces. More so, the FBI and The United States Department of State had its own separate intelligence service that further divided the nation’s

Following WWII there was an extensive reconstruction of the U.S. governments militant and intelligence departments. Most of the provisions lay

Originally, Bill Donovan was in control of the OSS, which was created in the early 1940s by President Franklin Roosevelt. Roosevelt created the OSS because with World War II approaching the U.S., he needed information on the other countries’ plans. Later though, after Roosevelt died, Truman came to power and because he did not know Donovan and had received negative reports on the OSS, he shut it down on October 1, 1945. Two years later, however, Truman recognized the need for the organization and was willing to recreate it, just not with Donovan and his OSS leading it (Walker, 2015). In 1947 he created the CIA in order to better handle the challenges found in the Cold War. The changing from the OSS to the CIA left a huge impact on America in the future. As the CIA began standing up with its own beliefs against the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the organization was able to change America’s views on communism and the Soviet Union entirely. Due to the conflict between the FBI and the CIA, the propaganda from the CIA overemphasized its role in the Cold War to enhance its prestige and power to the United States (Walker,

One of the main components of the Cold War was, the Cold War espionage. The Cold War espionage was a series of gathering information and intelligence during the Cold War between the United States (which included the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), etc.) and the Soviet Union (specifically the Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti a.k.a. the KGB and Glavnoye Razvedyvatel'noye Upravleniye a.k.a. GRU). The CIA originally began as the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), where they conducted a series of espionage as well as undercover operations throughout World War II. In 1947, the OSS evolved into the CIA. The CIA had support from many other government agencies in the United States, such as the NSA (National Security Agency) which was formed in 1952.