Mike Benz

Under the 1947 Act, it was largely conceived of as being an intelligence collection agency, not so much operations. The CIA has two different career tracks. Intelligence, you know, they call it the analyst track and the operations track. And they're very different breeds of people. They're very, very different in what they do.

One of them, you know, you collect the intelligence and you synthesize it for policymakers at the State Department or at the White House National Security Council. A lot of reading, a lot of foreign websites. Yes, a lot of academics. Yeah.

One of them, you know, you collect the intelligence and you synthesize it for policymakers at the State Department or at the White House National Security Council. A lot of reading, a lot of foreign websites. Yes, a lot of academics. Yeah.

One of them, you know, you collect the intelligence and you synthesize it for policymakers at the State Department or at the White House National Security Council. A lot of reading, a lot of foreign websites. Yes, a lot of academics. Yeah.

And the operations is where you get, you know, the Barry Seale cocaine cowboy types and, you know, these, you know, the kind of wild folks who go in and do the dirty work to overthrow democratically elected governments or to do the.

And the operations is where you get, you know, the Barry Seale cocaine cowboy types and, you know, these, you know, the kind of wild folks who go in and do the dirty work to overthrow democratically elected governments or to do the.

And the operations is where you get, you know, the Barry Seale cocaine cowboy types and, you know, these, you know, the kind of wild folks who go in and do the dirty work to overthrow democratically elected governments or to do the.

True. Although John Brennan was an analyst track his whole career. And, you know, I don't know that that makes a more charitable case than the operations side, but... But the fact is, is Kennan writes this memo in 1948, 12 days after the U.S. had rigged the Italian election in 1948. And that's what it was.

True. Although John Brennan was an analyst track his whole career. And, you know, I don't know that that makes a more charitable case than the operations side, but... But the fact is, is Kennan writes this memo in 1948, 12 days after the U.S. had rigged the Italian election in 1948. And that's what it was.

True. Although John Brennan was an analyst track his whole career. And, you know, I don't know that that makes a more charitable case than the operations side, but... But the fact is, is Kennan writes this memo in 1948, 12 days after the U.S. had rigged the Italian election in 1948. And that's what it was.

Miles Copeland, who was one of the leaders of that from the CIA side, wrote in a biography later in his life that without CIA intervention in that election, we would have lost 60 to 40.

Miles Copeland, who was one of the leaders of that from the CIA side, wrote in a biography later in his life that without CIA intervention in that election, we would have lost 60 to 40.

Miles Copeland, who was one of the leaders of that from the CIA side, wrote in a biography later in his life that without CIA intervention in that election, we would have lost 60 to 40.

Well, and Miles Copeland, the- I think I may be getting that wrong. Well, the grandson actually went on to be, I think, the manager for Sting, R.E.M., a bunch of these major bands, and then teamed up with Donald Rumsfeld. in order to help do music diplomacy in Iraq and Afghanistan, which is a whole other family of secrets.

Well, and Miles Copeland, the- I think I may be getting that wrong. Well, the grandson actually went on to be, I think, the manager for Sting, R.E.M., a bunch of these major bands, and then teamed up with Donald Rumsfeld. in order to help do music diplomacy in Iraq and Afghanistan, which is a whole other family of secrets.

Well, and Miles Copeland, the- I think I may be getting that wrong. Well, the grandson actually went on to be, I think, the manager for Sting, R.E.M., a bunch of these major bands, and then teamed up with Donald Rumsfeld. in order to help do music diplomacy in Iraq and Afghanistan, which is a whole other family of secrets.

What happens is, in the 1948 election, the CIA, which did not really have the authorization to do what it did, it was a last-minute, last-ditch, Hail Mary effort to swing the election, and they took the assets that they had had from World War II, backing, at that time, the OSS, the War Department, before in 1948 it changed to the Defense Department,

What happens is, in the 1948 election, the CIA, which did not really have the authorization to do what it did, it was a last-minute, last-ditch, Hail Mary effort to swing the election, and they took the assets that they had had from World War II, backing, at that time, the OSS, the War Department, before in 1948 it changed to the Defense Department,

What happens is, in the 1948 election, the CIA, which did not really have the authorization to do what it did, it was a last-minute, last-ditch, Hail Mary effort to swing the election, and they took the assets that they had had from World War II, backing, at that time, the OSS, the War Department, before in 1948 it changed to the Defense Department,

The War Department had worked closely with the Vatican, with the church, as well as with mafia organizations, organized crime factions in Italy that were being prosecuted by Mussolini. And we were teamed up with them. They gave us access to ports, to infrastructure, to safe houses. They were a big network, pro-US network node organization. during World War II.