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JFK wanted to splinter CIA ‘into a thousand pieces.’ Why didn't he?
Washington Politics

JFK wanted to splinter CIA ‘into a thousand pieces.’ Why didn't he?

Piecing together newly unredacted files and personal accounts, we know now there was a powerful shift against the agency's 'rogue autonomy.' Until there wasn't.

Carter and Chile: How humanitarian was the president?
Latin America

Carter and Chile: How humanitarian was the president?

The 'human rights president' had some tough political decisions to make regarding Augusto Pinochet in 1979.