|
|
|
Use this tool to learn about websites, specifically the one you just entered.
If you find some aspect of it inappropriate it is not our fault.
If you are the owner of this website: yes we are a real search engine, we do have a real web crawler called FyberSpider and you can block it if you feel the urge.
We are in the process of updating this tool. Until we are done just use our search results to check the inclusion status of your site.
Submit your site to major search engines within 48 hours.
Find out if your site has been cataloged by top search engines for only $8.99.
Below you will see site info taken directly from the URL you entered in real time. This is also known as our URL Breakdown tool and can be used independently of our site info tool.
CIA Diary: Inside the Company by Philip Agee
This is just a sample of the content found on this website. Please visit the website to read the entire page.
"excerpts from the book
CIA Diary
Inside the Company
by Philip Agee
Penguin Books, 1975
p37
... what the Agency [CIA] does is ordered by the President
and the NSC [National Security Council]. The Agency neither makes
decisions on policy nor acts on its own account. It is an instrument
of the President.
... the question of Congressional monitoring of intelligence
activities and of the Agency in particular. The problem resides
in the National Security Act of 1947 and also in its amendment,
the Central Intelligence Agency Act of 1949. These laws charged
the DCI [Director of Central Intelligence] with protecting the
'sources and methods' of the US intelligence effort and also exempted
the DCI and the Bureau of the Budget from reporting to Congress
on the organization, function, personnel and expenditures of the
CIA - whose budget is hidden in the budgets of other executive
agencies. The DCI, in fact, can secretly spend whatever portion
of the CIA budget he determines necessary, with no other accounting
than his own signature. Such expenditures, free from review by
Congress or the General Accounting Office or, in theory, by anyone
outside the executive-branch, are called 'unvouchered funds'.
By passage of these laws Congress has sealed itself off from
CIA activities, although four small sub-committees are informed
periodically on important matters by the DCI. These are the Senate
and House sub-committees of the Armed Services and Appropriations
Committees, and the speeches of their principal spokesman, Senator
Richard Russell, are required reading for the JOT'S.
There have been several times when ClA autonomy was threatened.
The Hoover Commission Task Force on Intelligence Activities headed
by General Mark Clark recommended in 1955 that a Congressional
Watchdog Committee be established to oversee the CIA much as the
Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy watches over the
AEC. The Clark Committee, in fact, did not believe the sub-comm"
....
read entire page
|
