The most important Strategic Initiative of any president over the last 40, 50 years, it was the strategic triangle of nixon and kissinger to allow the United States to build better relations with both china and the soviet union than they had with each other. And it was cia intelligence that provided the impetus to suggest that we could do this and as a result the soviet union would have to engage us which they did in terms of the treaty of berlin and the arms control agreements and we would end up with very good bilateral relations with both of them. So, the cia can be effective as a support instrument in this area. In terms of what needs to be done, because im running out of my time, i think we could do ourselves a lot of good by going back to that oped that president truman wrote in december of 1963. The warning about covert action, the warning that covert action is policy. And covert action, therefore, can taint clandestine collection and even taint intelligence analysis. That the c
History and relationship between the white house and the cia through the truman years to today. He describes how the intelligence arm he came a source of covert operations. By thent was hosted National Archives and is about an hour. Thank you. Good evening. Thank you for the invitation to come out here and all of the wonderful hospitality. It was a chance to get to the world war i museum. Remarkable. It has been a pleasant couple of days. This is a great topic because it is controversial. No matter what i say, it will be controversial. Let me start with controversial remarks of others. I would like to start with frank church from idaho. He was the chairman of the church commission. Started,investigation he made a remark that was unfortunate and called the cia a rogue elephant. That is entirely wrong. If they were a rogue elephant, it would be easy. Controld get it under and the president should be able to do that. The president has given all of the missions and a few of them that dcaat
Next on the presidency, author and intelligence expert Melvin Goodman describes the relationship between the white house and the cia from the truman years through today. Goodman explains how president becames intelligence arm a politicized source of covert actions around the world, from the pay of pigs invasion from the bay of pigs invasion to the iran contra affair. Thank you and good evening. Thank you to dale with invitation to come out here. All the wonderful hospitality to see the world war i museum which is a remarkable museum. It has been an extremely pleasant couple of days. Great topic to deal with because it is controversial from the outset. No matter what i say, it will be controversial. Let me start with some controversial remarks that others made before i get to my own. I would like to start with Senator Frank Church from idaho. He was the chairman of the Church Commission. When the Church Commission investigation started, he made remarks that were unfortunate. An elephant
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