How Did President Kennedy's Assassination Happen?

[Lauren Johnson]

You're STILL not getting it.

There is no "the CIA" any more than there was a "the KGB."

These organizations are/were compartmentalized and factionalized (not redundant) and anything but organizationally or ideologically monolithic entities.

This reality is central to our appreciations of deep politics and its many manifestations.

Until we can master the very language we use to express what decades of study have revealed to us, we are fucking helpless.

CD, I have made myself go a little crazy putting my brain, such as it is, through different thought experiments. One of them being about "the CIA" versus some other entities. Once there is compartmentalization, factionalization, need to know, etc., the key to this zoo is who controls the compartments. In the day of The Secret Team, I suppose there was some kind of centralized control. But now? Would it be something out of the Good Fellas and the God Father? How would the factions adjudicate their differences?

Fletcher Prouty said that the CIA's founding cover story was that is was an intelligence gathering organization. Being right was never its prime directive. I would suppose its cover story now is that there is "a" CIA. Or does the whole thing devolve into a manifestation of The Unspeakable. Just cause more chaos, get rich, play poker for hookers, and have a hell of a lot of fun doing it.