[RetiredArmy]

Interesting read. Truman shut down the old WWII OSS. Then realized his problem and brought it back as the CIA. Then he saw what the CIA was becoming.

[knarf]

I haven't read the entire post but, what does he mean by "original assignment" ?

What was the CIA supposed to do/be as opposed to what it became (at that time) ?

[smoothsailing]

I've always been interested by the presence of the AR-15 prototype.

[Don Corleone]

Re the Kennedy assassination: The real story has yet to be told and is quite a way from the BS that has been put out so far. Just like Benghazi, IRS,NSA etc.

[NFHale]

And there’s a new book that asks the question:

Who had the most to gain by JFK being dead, or the most to lose by him staying alive...

And je’accuse finger points directly to Lyndon B. Johnson...

[Altura Ct.]

“For some time I have been disturbed by the way the CIA has been diverted from its original assignment,” Truman wrote.

Lord have mercy. He would have an absolute coronary to see what the FBI, CIA and even Secret Service has morphed into. Not to mention so called "Homeland Security".

[MichaelCorleone]

***Truman was no distant, uninformed public policy professional...***

Unlike our ‘leaders’ of today.

[Albion Wilde]

Possibly the last decent Democrat.

[Karl Spooner]

Supposed part of the early 1990's document dump about the assassination .

[ozzymandus]

Harry started out as a bagman for the Boss Pendergast mob in KC. How he became known as a fount of wisdom escapes me.

[OldNewYork]

Interesting. Never knew this about Truman.

[ALASKA]

Physics tells the story of conspiracy or not. Watch the headshot. Energy is transferred to an object in the same direction it is moving. In this case, right to left...........NOT down and rear to front...