As the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) marks its seventy-fifth anniversary, it has made conspicuous efforts to rebrand itself as a progressive force for scientific and technological change. As author and former CIA agent Ralph McGehee explains, “the CIA is not an intelligence agency, it’s a covert action agency. In the wake of Japan’s surrender, however, as the WWII-era OSS evolved into the Cold War—era Central Intelligence Agency, the relation between American Intelligence and the scientific community has only become more pathological. Over the course of the Agency’s seventy-five-year existence, it has repeatedly enlisted experts not just to lie about scientific atrocities but to commit them. In Operation Paperclip, the CIA found a perfect partner in its quest for scientific intelligence.

Source: Washington Post June 06, 2023 11:02 UTC