The CIA hasn’t eliminated the flaws that limited its effectiveness prior to the 9/11 attacks, says former CIA agent Ishmael Jones, a pseudonym for the author of a prominent book about the agency.
Both the Iranian Hostage Crisis and the capture of the USS Pueblo occurred in the later half of the Carter and Johnson administrations respectively. It will be interesting to see if anything happens this go around with another internationally weak President.
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