BOMBSHELL RELEASE: Full Schlessinger Memo Advising JFK to Disband CIA

President Trump just exposed Arthur Schlesinger’s full 15-page memo calling for President John F. Kennedy (JFK) to break up the CIA in 1961. Schlesinger called the CIA a rogue “state within a state.” “No one knows how many potential problems … are being created by CIA clandestine operations.”

Schlesinger: “The contemporary CIA possesses many of the characteristics of a state within a state.” “There is no doctrine governing our conduct of clandestine operations.”

Schlesinger slammed the idea that the CIA should “fight fire with fire” to defeat communism. “If fighting fire with fire means contracting the freedoms traditionally enjoyed by Americans in order to give more freedom to the CIA, no one seriously wishes to do that.”

Schlesinger: “CIA operations have not been held effectively subordinate to US foreign policy.” “In short, no one knows how many potential problems for US foreign policy — and how much potential friction with friendly states — are being created at this moment by CIA clandestine intelligence operations.”

In practice, Schlesinger told JFK, the State Department had become a “rubber stamp” for CIA clandestine operations.

“The concept of ‘contingency planning’ has legitimized the concrete preparation of operations still presumably in a hypothetical stage.”

“If a group is assembled and revved up on a contingency basis, then the failure to carry the project through (it is argued) will invite the disappointment and alienation of the group.”

“CIA has effectively ‘made’ policy in many parts of the world.”

“A number of governments still in power know that they have been targets of CIA attempts at overthrow — not a state of mind calculated to stimulate friendly feelings toward” the US.

Schlesinger recalled Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs Thomas C. Mann’s reaction to the botched Bay of Pigs invasion: “I would never have favored initiating this operation, but, since it has gone as far as it has, I do not think we can risk calling it off.”

Schlesinger proposed that JFK de-couple the CIA’s clandestine operations from its research and analysis work. “If intelligence is too closely connected with operations, then those committed to a particular operation will tend to select out the intelligence which validates the operation.”

In conclusion, Schlesinger proposed “a drastic overhaul of the State Department” to rein in CIA clandestine operations.

“The State Department would be granted general clearance authority over all clandestine activity.”

Schlesinger also proposed splitting the CIA into two agencies, one for clandestine and paramilitary activities and another for information collection and analysis.

One month after JFK’s assassination, former President Harry Truman echoed Schlesinger’s fears outlined in this 1961 memo.

“There is something about the way the CIA has been functioning that is casting a shadow over our historic position.”

Truman wrote that he set up the CIA to streamline information-gathering.

“At times, the intelligence reports tended to be slanted to conform to established positions of a given department.”

But between his presidency and JFK’s, Truman witnessed a change in the CIA.

“For some time I have been disturbed by the way CIA has been diverted from its original assignment.”

“It has become an operational and at times a policy-making arm of the Government.”

“I never had any thought that when I set up the CIA that it would be injected into peacetime cloak and dagger operations.”

Truman called for the termination of the CIA’s “operational duties” and the restoration of the agency to its “original assignment as the intelligence arm of the President.”

All the documents shown above were taken from yesterday's release of JFK Assassination files.  They are in document 176-10033-10145 in the recent release: https://archives.gov/files/research

Hal Turner Editorial Opinion

So here we are, some 63 Years after the assassination of JFK, and only now do we see that this was a major problem way back then!

For certain, we have seen the results of CIA activities during those years, and one has to wonder (OK, it's no wonder at all) how much of the CIA activities caused the present Russia-Ukraine war?

It is no stretch of the imagination (at all) to see the CIA caused the "Maidan Revolution" in Ukraine back in the year 2014 that forcibly overthrew Ukraine's democratically-elected President, Viktor Yanukovych, allowing for the US and NATO to install a puppet government in Kiev.

It is no stretch of the imagination to see "their boy" Zelensky, rooting for more and more war despite losing over a million of his country's men.   

It now seems feasible to me that while President Trump is pushing to end the war, the guys a few miles to the south, in Langley, VA, are doing and saying the exact opposite.

It's long overdue to put a stop to this.  

President Trump should SHUT DOWN THE CIA for 90 days while he negotiates the end of the Ukraine war.    I have a sneaky suspicion that Trump's efforts will go suddenly faster and smoother with all CIA operations and money flows completely shut down.

If I am correct, then once the Ukraine war is settled, President Trump should have a very long talk with the top echelons at CIA and tell them flat-out, the agency is to be reconstructed very differently than it is right now.  No more "rogue state within a state."  No more actions contrary to US foreign policy.   No more fomenting the overthrow of governments or involving itself in foreign politics.   Either that, or it is closed forever.  And see how it goes.

And lest the folks over at the much larger NSA (National Security Agency) get the idea that they can cover for the closed CIA during that 90 day shutdown, make it clear to them in advance they could be shut off too -- permanently.