Government Agency Plagued by Bureacracy
Not exactly a news flash, but it is always interesting to hear of the exploits of petty bureaucrats – especially when they happen to run the CIA.
Jones presents a withering portrait of the CIA as suffering from a timid, self-serving bureaucracy that has stifled initiative and failed to recruit meaningful spies.
The CIA has also misled Congress on its spending, he maintains, diverting billions of dollars that were supposed to bolster its spying operations overseas into a dramatic expansion of offices inside the United States.
- CIA Veteran Rips Agency, Tests Limits of Right to Publish
article by Jeff Stein of Congressional Quarterly
The exposé (flatly labeled “fictitious” by a CIA spokesman despite the likely repercussions facing the author for publishing after CIA censors took issue with the book) is called The Human Factor: Inside the CIA’s Dysfunctional Intelligence Culture.
