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these operations. Richard Helms faced a new difficulty when Kennedy reduced the autonomy of the CIA stations. The degree of control an ambassador should have over CIA operations in his country had been a touchy issue for years. The experien…
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as Jacob Esserling had done with Tom Mann in Guatemala when Mann had been the ambassador to El Salvador. But this had been voluntary. After a 1958 interagency study, Eisenhower gave the CIA virtually complete autonomy, directing the ambassa…
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In other words, Eisenhower turned all of the CIA loose all over the world with or without the ambassador's knowledge. Now, again, just so that you guys are staying up that may have joined us without having the three years, they purposely mo…
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on the diplomatic front when you're running operations in that country. William Polly is a good example of that. There's lots of them. President Kennedy reversed this policy. Among the intelligence board recommendations of 1961 had been one…
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U. Alexis Johnson drafted a letter for JFK's signature dispatched in May of 1961. Kennedy's letter established a country team concept. CIA could sit on the ambassador's senior councils, but the ambassador had all of the authority. John Kenn…