The United States has always gone to great lengths in order to be the most dominant power in the world, whether economically, militarily, socially etc. In order to be so advanced, the United States has evolved and grown to be able to gather lots of information and intelligence from around the world that concerns its own prosperity. Currently, the most dominant channel of gathering foreign information is the CIA. The Central Intelligence Agency was created to gather information on foreign policy information in order to keep Americans safe. However, CIA agents also have a huge impact on foreign perception of Americans Citizens. Given their failure to use foreign intelligence to keep our country safe, as well as rather immoral executed attacks
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In addition to problems with domestic defense in World War II, the CIA’s failure to communicate and therefore execute has also led to “fumbled” and inadequately planned and thought out attacks on foreign countries. In April of 1964, one of the most disastrous attacks of our national history, known as the Bay of Pigs Invasion, took place with the intention of overthrowing Cuba’s communist government 's leader, Fidel Castro. The United States was so afraid of Castro because Cuba is so close to the United States, only 90 miles south of Florida, and they were closely aligned with the Soviet Union. The United State’s entire foreign policy was essentially to contain communism inspired by the Soviets. The plan of invasion was to first invade the Bay using Air Force to destroy the Cuban Air Force, followed by an invasion of 1500 invaders off ships. The CIA for some reason assumed that the Cuban natives would join the 1500 in rebelling and attacking. The CIA’s intention was to have the attack be a surprise, but they did a very bad job of keeping the secret, and the Cubans ultimately knew that the invasion was coming. The attack ultimately ended up being one of the biggest …show more content…
For example, the CIA’s actions after World War two were despicable and embarrassing to the entire country. During World War 2, it was undeniable and a globally accepted fact the the German had some extremely intelligent scientists and researchers who were allowing them to become so advanced so quickly in the areas of science and technology. Both during and after World War II, the CIA headed “Operation Paperclip”, whose purpose was to extricate the most brilliant scientists from Germany and bring them to America. As stated by the New York Times, “Although some of these men had been Nazi Party members, SS officers and war criminals, they were valued as vital to American national security. Thus it was O.K., American government officials reasoned, to ignore these scientists’ roles in developing biological and chemical weapons, in designing the V-2 rockets that shattered London and Antwerp and in the countless deaths of concentration camp inmates who fell victim to medical experiments at Dachau and Ravensbrück” (Lower). New York Times analyst Annie Jacobsen decided to track twenty-one of the scientists and researchers, and she found that of the twenty-one, “Eight of her subjects had worked directly with Hitler, Himmler or Göring; 15 were active Nazi Party members; 10 served in
In addition to problems with domestic defense in World War II, the CIA’s failure to communicate and therefore execute has also led to “fumbled” and inadequately planned and thought out attacks on foreign countries. In April of 1964, one of the most disastrous attacks of our national history, known as the Bay of Pigs Invasion, took place with the intention of overthrowing Cuba’s communist government 's leader, Fidel Castro. The United States was so afraid of Castro because Cuba is so close to the United States, only 90 miles south of Florida, and they were closely aligned with the Soviet Union. The United State’s entire foreign policy was essentially to contain communism inspired by the Soviets. The plan of invasion was to first invade the Bay using Air Force to destroy the Cuban Air Force, followed by an invasion of 1500 invaders off ships. The CIA for some reason assumed that the Cuban natives would join the 1500 in rebelling and attacking. The CIA’s intention was to have the attack be a surprise, but they did a very bad job of keeping the secret, and the Cubans ultimately knew that the invasion was coming. The attack ultimately ended up being one of the biggest …show more content…
For example, the CIA’s actions after World War two were despicable and embarrassing to the entire country. During World War 2, it was undeniable and a globally accepted fact the the German had some extremely intelligent scientists and researchers who were allowing them to become so advanced so quickly in the areas of science and technology. Both during and after World War II, the CIA headed “Operation Paperclip”, whose purpose was to extricate the most brilliant scientists from Germany and bring them to America. As stated by the New York Times, “Although some of these men had been Nazi Party members, SS officers and war criminals, they were valued as vital to American national security. Thus it was O.K., American government officials reasoned, to ignore these scientists’ roles in developing biological and chemical weapons, in designing the V-2 rockets that shattered London and Antwerp and in the countless deaths of concentration camp inmates who fell victim to medical experiments at Dachau and Ravensbrück” (Lower). New York Times analyst Annie Jacobsen decided to track twenty-one of the scientists and researchers, and she found that of the twenty-one, “Eight of her subjects had worked directly with Hitler, Himmler or Göring; 15 were active Nazi Party members; 10 served in