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A 6 page research paper that discusses US intelligence after WWII and during the Cold War, focusing on the CIA. The writer draws on literature to argue that the CIA should abandon paramilitary covert operations, which have failed miserably in their ultimate objectives, and concentrate on gathering accurate intelligence, as it has also failed miserably at this goal as well. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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This talent became even more pronounced after World War II when the global political atmosphere was interpreted primarily in terms of the threat of Soviet expansion. The world was conceptualized
as a battlefield, with the US and the Soviets vying for dominance. While this was metaphorically "cold" in that the two super powers did not openly declare war on each
other, the threat of open warfare was omnipresent and Western intelligence communities were highly aware of this threat. When Congress established the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in 1947, its
stated purpose was "to correlate and evaluate intelligence" (Wise, 2003, p. 32). However, the CIAs mandate also included in its language that the agency could legally undertake "other functions and
duties," which provided a legal loophole that was employed to justify "thousands of covert operations" that were subsequently "launched around the globe" during the decades that followed (Wise, 2003, p.
32). As this fact suggests, the mission, scope, organization and resources of the US intelligence community changed drastically after World War II, in response to the perceived continued "combat"
conditions of the Cold War. Analysis of literature on this change indicates that it resulted in two primary effects. First of all, numerous covert campaigns that violate democratic and justice
principles were rationalized due to the assumptions made about the nature of the Cold War and, also, literature suggests that these assumptions were, for the most part, wrong, as intelligence
data was interpreted in light of ideology rather than objectively on facts. The ideology that governed covert activities is quite clearly illustrated in the School of the Americas, which
ostensibly was organized in 1946 in order to educate Latin American leaders about the democratic process. In reality, this was a school specifically designed to instruct right-wing military officers to
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