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Philip Giraldi spent 18 years in CIA nearly all overseas where he worked almost exclusively on counter-terrorism against groups that were initially nearly all European , starting with the Italian Red Brigades in 1976 and ending up with the Basque and Catalan separatists in Spain .
He never killed anyone or coerced anyone and never carried a gun, not even in Afghanistan .
CIA was founded in 1947 to correct failure to connect all the intelligence dots that preceded Pearl Harbor .
Only one director since Bill Casey , former OSS , under Ronald Reagan , has been a career intelligence officer.
CIA has been selected for political reasons and drawn from ranks of ex-military like Turner , Woolsey , Petraeus and Pompeo , from retired politicians.
Most former intelligence agency employees now believe that the national security system has become so politicized that it is nearly dysfunctional.
The creation of the office of the Director of National Intelligence , currently held by Avril Haines , was intended to serve as a focal point for providing policy makers with the best information from all of the US government’s eighteen intelligence agencies.
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