CIA: A'Spy' in the White House?

Bombarded by criticism and hounded by investigations, the CIA is beginning to take on some of the characteristics of the State Department during the McCarthy era in the early 1950s: morale is falling, effectiveness is diminishing, recruiting is becoming tougher, and good men are wary of committing their thoughts to paper in memos and recommendations that might come back to haunt them some day. Last week the pressure on the besieged CIA continued with a welter of new accusations.

The most sensational charge was that the CIA had secretly planted its agents...

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