Mysterious Third Hand: Secret Operations of the American Situation Agency in the 20th Century

Author: Liu Xuemei
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Publish Date: 2005-07-01
Features: For a period of time, I felt uneasy about the Central Intelligence Agency changing its original mission. It has now become an arm of government action and sometimes even an arm of government decision-making. When the Central Intelligence Agency was established, I never imagined it would wear the cloak of peacetime while engaging in dagger-like operations. I believe some of the things we have experienced and the embarrassing situations are partly due to this President's well-behaved intelligence arm straying from its original role, leading it to be labeled as a symbol of shameless and mysterious foreign diplomatic conspiracies. – Harry S. Truman, President of the United States
It is a tool for the United States to pursue secret diplomacy and interfere in the internal affairs of other countries. Without the Central Intelligence Agency, the Cold War that lasted for half a century would never have been so intense; without the Central Intelligence Agency, the world's newspapers and magazines would have had fewer headlines.