the cia also mislead other cia white house officials. when vice president cheney's counsel asked cia counsel general in 2003 about the cia's videotaping the water boarding of detainees, muller deliberately told him that videotapes, quote, were not being made, end quote, but did not disclose that videotapes of previous water boarding sessions had been made and still existed. source, email from scott muller dated june 7th, 2003. there are many many more examples in the commit tease report. all are documented. the third set notes the various ways in which cia management of the program from its inception to its formal termination in january of '09, was inadequate and deeply flawed. there is no doubt that the detention interrogation program was by any measure a major cia undertaking. it raised significant legal and policy issues, and involves significant resources and funding. it was not, however, managed as a significant cia program. instead it had limited oversight, and lacked formal direction and management. for example, in the six months

want to write about the cia. the most basic kind of relationship you have between the press and the agency is that a reporter will go and have lunch with an agent of the cia and he will get some background information that he can use. the cia is often a valuable source of intelligence for reporters. at a certain point, intelligence work and the press are doing the same kind of thing for very different reasons in terms of getting information. so if you're getting a lot of good stuff from the cia, you do not necessarily want to do anything that is going to aggravate them or to close down the source of information. the press wants to keep access. had anw york times" arrangement with the cia in the 60's were every once in a while they would put reporters in the cia and would get briefed 40 background. deepas in -- for background. it was a mutually beneficial relationship. there were reporters that wanted to cooperate. there was joseph alsop, a famous columnist went beyond trading went beyond-- who trading information

the cia also misled other cia white househi officials. when vice president cheney's cancel cia council general scott mueller in 2003 about cia videotaping, the waterboarding of detainees deliberately toldpe them that videotapes were not being made." but did not disclose videotapes of previous waterboarding sessions had been made and still existed. source e-mail from scottel where muellerdated june 7, 2003. there aren't many, many more examples and the committee's report. all are documented. the third set of findings in conclusion notes the various ways in which cia management of detention and interrogation program from its inception to its formal termination in january of 2009 was in adequate and deeply flawed. there is no doubt the detention and deterioration program was by any major measure a major cia undertaking. at raise significant legal and policy issues and involve significant resources and funding. it was not however managed as a significant cia program. instead it had limited oversight and lacked formal direction and management.

of the soviets he passes these things to cia and his cia and mi6 case officers. he provides high level soviet policy papers. he even tries to warn the us ahead of time about that the berlin wall is going up but he can't do so in time above all he conveys his impressions that the soviet leadership is not as confident as they appear. they are blustering from a position of weakness and they know it. they worry about provoking the us to war. they know they do not have strategic superiority in nuclear weapons. the national the national intelligence estimates at the time the us national intelligence at the time assessed that the soviets had far fewer nuclear missiles than they were claiming. it was bluster. and then khrushed off backs down on berlin and that seems to confirm pincofsky's intelligence. at the same time pankowsky says kristoff might do something desperate. cia gave pinkovsky the code name hero hit the vast documentary intelligence that he provided was marked the code word ironbark. and then the oral debriefings he gave that was the chickadee intelligence.

the ciaed. used these examples t presentations to the white house, in testimony to congress, in submissions to the department of justice and ultimately to the american people. some ofim the claims are well-known. the capture of khalid sheikh mohammed. the prevention of attacks against the library tower of los angeles and the takedown of osama bin laden.he other claims were made only in classified settings, to the white house, congress, and the department of justice. in each case the cia claimed that critical and unique information came from one or more detainees in its custody after they were subjected to the cia'ss. coercive techniques andn that information led to specifiu counter terrorism success. our staff reviewed everyone of the 20 cases and not a single case holds up. in every single one of thesese cases at least one of the following was true. one, the intelligence community had information separate from the use of eits that led toe the terrorist disruption or capture. two, information fr

so the cia is in a panic. they've got these red-hot videotapes on their hands. >> narrator: this man, jose rodriguez, the cia's top operations officer, knew how dangerous the tapes were and wanted to destroy them. >> jose rodriguez wanted to nip it in the bud. he floats this idea of destroying the tapes so they would never come out, and makes everybody nervous. "whoa, wait a second. could that be construed as a criminal cover-up if you do?" >> narrator: since he'd learned of the tapes, rizzo had told rodriguez not to destroy them. then, disturbing news. >> one of my lawyers in the counterterrorism center sent me a cable from the facility to headquarters, a very short cable that essentially says, "pursuant to headquarters directions, the videotapes have been destroyed." and needless to say, after 25 years at cia, i didn't think too much could flabbergast me, but reading that cable did. >> narrator: jose rodriguez had ordered the destruction of the tapes. on the seventh floor, they made a decision: they would te

and then with cia's creation in 1947, cia becomes central to that community. president truman added the national security agency in 1952. president eisenhower added the national reconnaissance office to coordinate cia and air force activities regarding imagery from spy planes and satellites coming online, and then under kennedy, the defense department gets its own intelligence agency. dia today is a major national agency of the u.s. intelligence community. as we have discussed doing important work in human intelligence and also specialized technical intelligence. so i got those important developments out of the way, and where want to focus on the two biggest intelligence subjects of the kennedy administration, which often are the two major historical episodes that people remember from this period. the bay of pigs fiasco, and the cuban missile crisis. so we have a fiasco and we have a crisis. and they're both big problems. what they have in common is, obviously, cuba. otherwise, they are vastly different kinds of problems. the bay of pigs fiasco was a cia cover

and cia didn't want to stop. the real cia at the time, the agency i know from years of study of cia internal documents, oral history interviews, memoirs, memorandum and so forth is literally the last group of men and women on the planet who would even consider doing such a thing. the most insulting thing i've seen is a claim that secretly -- cia recently put a star on the memorial wall for lee harvard oswald. i was one of the historians responsible for the memorial wall and i find that funny and frustrating all at the same time. i know on the internet you can find youtube interviews with men claiming to be the cia assassin, you know, deathbed confessions. you can also find claims about cia's cover-up of extra turestterals in area 51, roswell, cia's experiments in time travel and tell teleportation, and none of those are real either. the people who believe these things are sadly mistaken and many of them are nuts. the sad thing is the conspiracy theorists, the true believers would just say i'm part of the conspira

access to cia documents. >> so the senate is trying to oversee the cia.their constitutional responsibility. they're trying to investigate something the cia has done. the cia is messing with the investigation. they took away documents that the senate was looking at. they went into the senate's computers and said, huh-uh, we're taking that. that ended up being really important and led to two things. first of all, it led to public allegations, bombshell allegations that the cia was in effect spying on congress, that they were using spy tactics, the things they're empowered to do as a clandestine agency. they're using those tactics against the united states congress, against the part of the u.s. government that is supposed to oversee them. that's the first consequence of the cia getting caught taking those documents off the senate computers. the second consequence, though, was more spy versus spy style. because the second consequence of the cia getting caught messing with the senate in that way is that senate staffers decided, in response, effectively, to tak

the cia the cia is in fact an arm of the executive branch of the government. and if that executive branch says we're going to kill americans we're going to we're going to if the executive branch if the politicians say you we're going to give them kill americans we're going to kill children we're going to put on sanctions that destroy the economies. there are plenty of people under need that the executive branch that will carry out those those orders the oversight has also eroded the principle that the cia and any other government operation should in fact be restricted to the laws of its own nation is a is a principle that has to be enforced if it's not enforced if it's overlooked or it's ignored then bad things will happen so it's really a. matter of pressure ok paul you want to jump in there go ahead i mean that it was out well let's hope it's going to london. let's try to bring some clarity into this and some responsibility it sounds as though the critique is about american foreign and security policy not about the cia if you don't like what the u.s. governm

cia. mr. buyer. what's the point of having a music film that isn't open to the public? this is the museum for so many different parts. our agency, it's an operation or museum, meaning that we learn from the lessons of our past. so that we can become better in the future, in our operations. it's also to inform guests, people who come to headquarters, our partners, help them understand our history we've done in the past and also on shows like this, helping the american public understand the role of intelligence in our democracy. well, the cia is about 75 years old right now is just the point of opening up the newly classified parts of this museum. not only is this museum coming online just in time for the 75th anniversary of cia, it is also the 50th anniversary, three of cia museum. on the 25th anniversary of cia, we were asked to, create a museum. not that i was around for that, but that's where the museum started as a way to preserve the agency's history. and so it's a it's a double annive

a division within the cia. angleton had his fingers in many things. >> was hey well-known personality during the years he was active. >> guest: he was not. in fact there are stories that -- pun story i heard -- one man worked for him four years and never knew who was. her was very sec secretive in his ways, even within the cia. >> host: one of the underlying theisms the book is the importance of bureaucratic infighting. that comes up again and again. >> guest: yes, angleton is a master of that. as an administrator, he's i -- in a one-to-one meeting he was intelligent and his presentations were very compelling. he cultivated allen dulles, richmond helms, cia directors, and maintain his position even with criticism from colleague jive you century rife in the cia as survive in the cia at the level andie think about j edgar hoover surprising presidents. did he get close to the president as well or have dirt on people? >> guest: he was like edgar hoover and was -- hoover didn't like the cia at all but came to trust

and cia did not want to stop. real cia at the time, the agency i know, from years of study of cia internal documents. oral history interviews, memoirs memorandums and so forth. is literally the last group of men and women on the planet. who would even consider doing such a thing. the most insulting thing i have seen, is they claim that the recently put a star on the memorial war, for the harvey awful. i was a historian responsible for the memorial wall, and i find that funny, and insulting and frustrating all the same time. yes and on the internet you can find, youtube interviews with men claiming to be the cia assassin, death but confessions. you can also find claims about cia's cover-up of extra terrestrial's, ross will harriet 51, cia's experiments in time travel. till protection. none of those are real either. sorry to disappoint you. the people who believe these things, are sadly mistaken and many of them are nuts. the sad thing is the conspiracy theorist, the true believers it's like you're part of the consp

team-a was the cia and political analysis of the cia.team-b was a team that the ford administration wanted to introduce and i have no trouble with that as a discipline for challenging the analysis of the cia, but this was a group of neo- conservatives, hand picked by the white house, led by a harvard professor, richard pipes who was very anti-soviet. general danny graham, paul wolfowitz when's anti-soviet and tries to push analysis of the cia to the right. ironically, at the very time when the soviets were realizing that the missile race was getting them nowhere and it was time to seek another approach toward arms control. so the team-a, team-b concept fostered to a great exat the present time by two name that is are very familiar to you -- dick cheney when's the chief of staff for jerry ford, and donny rumsfeld, the youngest secretary of defense, since the creation of the national security act and the department of defense. ironically, he became the oldest secretary of defense in our history when he served for george w. bush. ford, of c

how has that impacted the cia? >> it has weakened the cia and the intention was to weaken the cia. you talk about the policy direction and now, to a certain extent, you could argue that the director of the cia, who was the director of central intelligence, war the hats -- hats, had too much responsibility for one individual. they did not give the cia director any authority, in terms of personnel or budget or testing. when they created the director of national intelligence, he did not get the authority because the pentagon would not allow it. before it could be sworn in, rumsfeld, who was a detroit in terms of understanding -- adroit in terms of understanding and your accuracy -- a bureaucracy. the national intelligence czar got a desk at the new building and rumsfeld had created the undersecretary of defense or intelligence to make sure that all of the responsibilities that dealt with military intelligence stayed with the pentagon. you look at the intelligence community and budget and personnel along to the military. ands a military operation that is why the cia outside of the mili

second, the cia and the cia senior officers have taken the opportunity to explain their views on cia detention and intergangs of operations. they have done this on the record statements and classified committee hearings. written testimony and answered questions. through the formal response to the committee in june 2013, after reading the study. and third, the committee had access to and utilized an extensive set of reports of interviews conducted by the cia inspector general and oral history program. while we could not conduct new interviews of individuals we did utilize transcripts or summaries of interviews of those directly engaged in detention and interrogation operations. these interviewinterviews occure time it was operational. and covered the topics we would asked about had we conducted interviews ourselves. the interview reports and transcripts included but were not limited to the following: george tenant, director of the cia when the agency took custody and interrogated the majority of detainees. jose rodriguez, director of the cia's counter terrorism center, a key player in

i also took the time to read a lot of cia books, books by cia insiders but also cia outside journalistsencompassing the previous 20 years which i had never read before. believe me after you spend 10 or 12 hours inside of that bubble at langley the last thing you want to do is come home and curl up in read more books about the cia. so i never read any of them. i read those and they are helpful. some are better than others, so that was it. that is how i put my manuscript together. there were a few areas that i will admit to you that i started pushing the envelope. i knew i was coming up to classified line in telling the story and i thought to myself i will see if i can get away with this so i pushed it. then i would submit the manuscript to the cia and dubiously every time i had done that they knocked it out again. they caught all of them. on the other hand there were certain events i talk about, certain stories and the book is really stories that i thought they would pare it down and they left them marginally unscathed. what i was finally able to get to my publisher the cleared manuscrip

she learned about the cia. a place where she could serve doingwith other women clandestine work around the world. since her departure in 1985, gina has developed an extensive overseas experience and served as chief of station in many locations. in washington, she held numerous senior leadership positions including deputy director, different -- deputy director of national clandestine services, i have reviewed the material provided by you and have spoken to personally. i believe in your intellectual rigor, and outstanding judgment make you a natural fit to lead the cia. i can assure you this committee will follow its charter and conduct vigorous and real-time operationsver cia and activities. we will ask difficult and probing questions of you and your staff and we will expect honest, complete, and timely responses. allowed the people cia to operate in the shadows because they have trust in oversight and i take that responsibility seriously. some may seek to turn this domination into a trial about a long shuttered

so as the cia presence has expanded, the cia station has expanded and the wing of cia operations.this building is going on. it seems like there's going to be this long-term american presence in pakistan, but i wonder after 2014 whether we will it to these buildings for this present is not going to be there after 2014. >> host: charles dunlap, oklahoma, please go ahead. >> guest: good afternoon. this is very interesting. out of information operations and targeting in the military. one thing that cannot resell any, which i find disturbing is we are using templates in order to upgrade zone strikes if you could talk to these of templates. >> guest: so i'm not sure what you mean by templates, but i know they are trying i'm not sure if this directly answers your question, but they are trying to work out basically the rules -- it's interesting so late in the game are still trying to work out the rules of who could be hit them where they could be hit. this is the rules described as a playbook that the obama administration is working out, where sets rules warrant stone about how a presiden

, old-school cia director. cynthia died last summer but i spent a lot of time with her the summer before. she was 95 and she was full of terrific untold stories about her husband and she said, you know, chris, they were all asked to do things they shouldn't have done. and i said, like what? and we got into it and we talked about the fact that helms, he was a flawed character. he was brilliant and he was smooth and i loved the stories about him holding his own on the dance floor with fred astaire at the 1975 date dinner for the shah of iran. helms was dancing with cynthia, and fred astaire was dancing. quite the character but flawed. his relationship with lbj is fascinating because he admired lbj for his domestic achievements and the great society. he was exasperated by the vietnam war. he wanted lbj to succeed, , and lbj leaned on him very hard, as only lbj could do, and told him in no uncertain terms that he wanted intelligence showing that domestic protesters against the vietnam war were being controlled by f

sede de la cia.bre los 20 aÑos, y se los ve entusiastas y deseosos de velar por la seguridad de este paÍs. me complace ver cÓmo una vez que entienden claramente lo que hizo el sr. snowden concuerdan conmigo y con otros en que fue algo lascivo a nuestra seguridad nacional, no fue algo digno de elogio. >> pero ¿no necesita usted mÁs gente como snowden trabajando para la cia? en otras palabras, gente inteligente, ingeniosa. >> necesitamos gente con capacidad tecnolÓgica y competente, pero tambiÉn gente muy comprometida con nuestra seguridad nacional, que quiera hacerlo, que estÉ a su alcance para mantener seguro a este paÍs. >> ¿la controversia de snowden ha bajado el nÚmero de solicitudes en la cia? >> yo no he notado ninguna merma en el interÉs sobre la agencia. >> ¿cÓmo lo explica? >> creo que muchas de las cosas que circulan en los medios, las noticias, no reflejan el punto de vista de la mayorÍa de los estadounidenses. >> pero no todos estÁn de acuerdo. >> la historia de snowden ha generado cierta

last year of a big revelation that includes the cia and a b bunch of top head fail, cia came heavily. you had a lot of veterans suffering from ptsd, there is a bunch of operations as you read and studied about and so forth, how does the concept of terrorism in that fine line wheen what is moral and ethical in terms of what is legal but what is humane. you have the apa crossing over advising them how to extracting information and how to play with someone's mind. it was interesting that came out and several of them fell from their positions but it seems like a lot of them had been involved in the community for a very, very long time since human intelligence is based on psychology. is there any more about that, because that's kind of a real gray shady area that a lot of people don't have a lot of information about. i find it interesting when it came out last year. >> i think the connection between psychologists and psychiatrists and cia is much longer than you make it out to be. if you think of the recent stuff is controversial, speaking of missing documents by the wa way -- that's a muc

cia. mr. buyer. what's the point of having a music film that isn't open to the public? this is the museum for so many different parts. our agency, it's an operation or museum, meaning that we learn from the lessons of our past. so that we can become better in the future, in our operations. it's also to inform guests, people who come to headquarters, our partners, help them understand our history we've done in the past and also on shows like this, helping the american public understand the role of intelligence in our democracy. well, the cia is about 75 years old right now is just the point of opening up the newly classified parts of this museum. not only is this museum coming online just in time for the 75th anniversary of cia, it is also the 50th anniversary, three of cia museum. on the 25th anniversary of cia, we were asked to, create a museum. not that i was around for that, but that's where the museum started as a way to preserve the agency's history. and so it's a it's a double annive

50th anniversary of cia museum. on the 25th anniversary of cia, we were asked to create a museum. not that i was around for that, but that's where the museum started as a way to preserve the agency's history and so, it's a double anniversary this year. >> so, what are we going to see when we go inside? >> so, this is, like i said, a brand new museum. we have changed the whole structure of the museum to reflect our new mission. instead of it being stove piped by directate, we have five core mission threads woven through the entire museum. in addition to the threads, we have chronological history of cia not just through the artifacts, but as you look on the ceiling, you will see there's a chronological history of codes on our ceiling, starting off with morris code from the beginning and by the time it's in the digital age, it's in binary code. >> how can you become the director of the cia museum? what's your background? >> so, interestingly enough, i came to the agency as a film producer. they needed to do a documenta

at the role of the cia. and i think it would be the beginning of what would be a complete reorientation of american intelligence and the intelligence establishment, away from a particular focus on traditional espionaps as it was practiced during the cold war, to a laser-light focus on hunting, capturing, targeting and often killing. it's a story of the cia at the front lines of what is a seeblgt war, a war that's changed nature of spying and that's had good and bad consequences. it's changed the focus of a cia, which i would argue the cia has had the most profound change since 9/11 of all the intelligence services, because they have been the ones put at the front of this secret war. and it's shaped the perspective of a whole new generation of intelligence officers. the cia now has more than 50% of the agency are people who joined after the september 11th attacks. so, if you think about that, that is the majority of cia officers are relatively young and are people who have known a mission where two successive