15 Dumb, Pointless, or Outright Baffling Things the CIA Has Done in Recent Years

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15 Dumb, Pointless, or Outright Baffling Things the CIA Has Done in Recent Years

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When we hear "CIA," our first thought is always, "That badass Zack De La Rocha, KRS-One, and The Last Emperor song?” But then we remember the actual acronym and it’s like, "Oh, right, the coups." Indeed, the CIA is not the most beloved of organizations, with the far-right terrorism-funding and the sitcom-like attempts at killing Fidel Castro, and the CIA man assigned to spying on us being all quiet during our late night enjoying sessions. That’s not political criticism, that’s just emotional selfishness, you know.

Anyway, listen, if your organization only exists to protect the interest of a country that is really a Megazord of corporate interests, then your actions are inevitably gonna be dumb and pointless. Sorry, that’s just good ol’ American truthfulness. So we’re taking a look at 15 of the dumbest, most pointless things the CIA has done. Because in their task of collecting info to protect national security, the agency could be tracking the ways billionaires undemocratically direct the economy towards climate collapse — but that's Marxism, we guess. Let us honor this sort of brilliantly coherent theoretical position, then, with astonishing feats of intelligence such as…

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