The agency always operated with the task at least the tacit approval, if not the instigation, of the american president. But within the c i as doctrine, is this doctrine of plausible deniability. So one of their whole reasons for being is to take the blame. And so i think you know what happened when hungary blew up. As eisenhauer and john foster dolason, as close as viras, sat there and thought, oh, wait a minute. You know, we've done everything possible to promote exactly this thing to happen but if we do anything about it now, we're going to be flirting with nuclear war. The agency let us down.
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