FOR SOME TIME I have been disturbed by the way the CIA has been diverted from its original assignment. It has become an operational and at times a policy-making arm of the government. This has led to trouble and may have compounded our difficulties in several explosive areas.
– Harry Truman, December 23, 1963
23 Dec 1963, 26 – The Capital Times at Newspapers.com
This was the same paper one month earlier.
