One Month After Dallas, Harry Truman Called for the Abolition of the CIA
The president who created the CIA denounced its shadow on the events of 1963
“For some time I have been disturbed by the way the CIA has been diverted from its original assignment,” wrote former president Harry Truman in the Washington Post on Dec. 22, 1963. Truman spoke exactly one month after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
“It has become an operational and at times a policy-making arm of …
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