Completely disband the CIA after 1960. In this scenario have the CIA try to recess. The later the better.
Bonus if it's by JFK
Completely disband the CIA after 1960. In this scenario have the CIA try to recess. The later the better.
Bonus if it's by JFK
Get it incorporated into one mega-intelligence agency along with the FBI.
Completely disband the CIA after 1960.
And replace them with what, a Federal Intelligence Agency or a Central Intelligence Bureau? Whatever comes next is just going to be a rebadged CIA anyway; you can't not have an intelligence gathering organisation.
Hare brained schemes aren't really an issue. The DoD has plans for the Girl Scouts of America attempting a coup. It just goes with the territory of a governmental organization investigating all contingencies and making plans accordingly, no matter how far fetched.have some of their hare-brained schemes happen and come to light, such as the Castro hair loss plan, therefore making it look like a ridiculous and incompetent organization. congress and the public thus get pissed at the waste of money and it gets disbanded, or at least rebranded, into a new organization.
Hare brained schemes aren't really an issue. The DoD has plans for the Girl Scouts of America attempting a coup. It just goes with the territory of a governmental organization investigating all contingencies and making plans accordingly, no matter how far fetched.
Note that the challenge is to disband the CIA, not to kill US intelligence gathering, intelligence analysis and assesment, or to kill the idea of a central intelligence clearinghouse. In fact, considering how far off the mark from what it's supposed to be, disbanding the CIA and rebuilding from the ground up an organization that actually can do that rather than focusing on paramilitary and covert operations would arguably serve the country much better.
Yes, but there's an enormous difference between doing the job one was set up for and focusing on something different to the detriment of that job. The CIA is an OSS style covert ops agency with a remit to be an intelligence clearinghouse. Acting on bad or nonexistent intel leads to mistakes that hurt the national interests.Every Great Power intelligence agency does covert ops. Information isn't very useful if you can't act on it. You don't collect intelligence just to collect intelligence but to formulate policy and actually do something.
Yes, but there's an enormous difference between doing the job one was set up for and focusing on something different to the detriment of that job. The CIA is an OSS style covert ops agency with a remit to be an intelligence clearinghouse. Acting on bad or nonexistent intel leads to mistakes that hurt the national interests.
There is definitely an interesting AHC in there.