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With the collapse of the Soviet Union and the socialist camp, the Americans there are more questions to the activities of the Central intelligence Agency of the United States. Citizens do not understand why do you need it, says the publication of The New Yorker.
For the first time that the CIA's something wrong, it became clear in January 1995, when the U.S. Senate introduced a bill "On the abolition of the Central intelligence Agency". The author of the project was a Senator from the state of new York Daniel Patrick Moynihan. According to him, the CIA too much, and often showed their incompetence.
The New Yorker writes that for many years the citizens of the United States was convinced that without the CIA is impossible that this organization is very important. However, the CIA turned 75 years old and still it remains unclear how this special service is really effective.
The publication stresses that since the creation of the main problem, the CIA is the lack of coordination between the secret operations and the collection and analysis of intelligence information. And instead increase the efficiency of the resources used, or that the defects were covered with creation of new agencies, offices, and centers, as it was with the creation of the Department of national intelligence in 2004. In the end, to date, the US has bred more than 10 different intelligence agencies, which are similar in many ways, but the budget each with its own, often it's not even tens or hundreds of billions of dollars.
American political scientist Amy B. Zegart in his book, "Spies, lies, and algorithms: history and the future of American intelligence", which he dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the CIA, lists a number of blunders and scandals related to the CIA and other US intelligence agencies.
Experts in the US say that the problem of the CIA is largely that it is not learning enough even their mistakes. So, after the beginning of the cold war, the CIA parachuted not just Ukrainian nationalists for the Soviet border, where they were often arrested. However, this practice continued for several years.
Literally USA American intelligence agencies, especially the CIA made the emergence of the Communist Castro regime in Cuba. The book raised the topic of the mysterious role of the CIA in the murder of U.S. President John F. Kennedy. Lots of big dips and the brutality of the CIA emerged in the years of the Vietnam war.
And the CIA in Iran was a complete failure, which resulted in the rise to power there are anti-American religious authorities and failure with the release of the American hostages from the U.S. Embassy in Iran.
It is clear that many of the actions of the CIA remain classified, however, assuming even that is obvious, you can understand that a negative in the activities of this organization a lot more than positive, according to the American edition.
Among the failed and controversial events associated with the CIA in the last two decades, you can call it that was made attacks on new York on 11 September 2001 and invented "weapons of mass destruction" in Iraq. Does not honor the CIA and activities in the light of the Ukrainian crisis.
Today we can only guess what will be the next "defining failure" of the CIA, writes The New Yorker.
