In the first place, it was not politics but the intelligence community that compromized the FBI. When the OSS merged with the Gehlen Organization into the CIA, thousands of Germans came from the Gehlen Organization into the US - with a new identity cause of their war crime history. To make sure that they don't get uncovered, the CIA had to infiltrate FBI, DOJ, the media and politics. While they where at it, they used this protection to get into the drug business - they needed the money to finance Operation Gladio in Europe. They did it under the guise of "counter espionage". Mixing intelligence community and law enforcement ends in tyranny and should never happen again.
In the first place, it was not politics but the intelligence community that compromized the FBI. When the OSS merged with the Gehlen Organization into the CIA, thousands of Germans came from the Gehlen Organization into the US - with a new identity cause of their war crime history. To make sure that they don't get uncovered, the CIA had to infiltrate FBI, DOJ, the media and politics. While they where at it, they used this protection to get into the drug business - they needed the money to finance Operation Gladio in Europe. They did it under the guise of "counter espionage". Mixing intelligence community and law enforcement ends in tyranny and should never happen again.
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