In 1951, the CIA’s budget was ballooning out of control to fund it’s massive covert operations which were all complete disasters. But they were secret disasters, so nobody, not even Congress or the President, let alone the general public, ever heard about most of them. While the CIA happily sent thousands of Koreans and Chinese agents to their deaths, they reported back to Washington that everything was going exactly to plan.

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