Overthrow a Government and Install a Puppet Dictator? The CIA will do it for Bananas!

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The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has been the subject of a number of controversies...

God, what a fitting start/title.

Resignation of officials and agents who would not work for Donald Trump

I didn't think I would come away with my opinion of the CIA improved.

For the rep they get, they actually do objectively more good than bad. It's just that you'll never hear about most the good and the bad sometimes tends to get extraordinarily bad. That's just how it works, it's why they were founded.

Most of the CIA is doing boring ass grunt work or important but secret shit that kinda could get everyone involved killed. For example sabotage of say Russian infrastructure or training of groups like the Kurds. And then on the otherhand you have some random agents drugging eachother and captured foreign spies.

Let's be honest here. Which country's secret paramilitary espionage service hasn't been the subject of several controversies?