[lbo-talk] CIA's Accuracy

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

On 6/20/06, andie nachgeborenen <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> wrote:
> You have no idea what you are talking about. The
> analysts in particular are people who just care about
> the country, given their lights, and try to given
> accurate and honest information, often to the
> disconcertyion of their imperial masters, who ignore
> their inconvenient advice and set up politicized teams
> of outsider speacilaized to generate their own
> disinformation." The ops are a different breed

Now, that may be true, but how do we know if what the CIA says is
accurate?  By now tens of millions of pages of CIA documents have been
declassified, but only historians, National Security Archive
researchers, and a few others read them.

Needless to say, a vast majority of CIA documents, past, present, and
future, will remain classified for a foreseeable future, so we have no
way to evaluate their accuracy.

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Yoshie
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