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C.I.A.: Maker of Policy, or Tool?

First of five articles on the CIA in The New York Times, 25 April 1966.

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Allen Dulles Named as a defender of the CIA Scholarship & press 1
Kennedy’s reported remark about splintering the CIA Printed here as said to “one of the highest officials” of the Kennedy Administration, who is not named Scholarship & press 1

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C.I.A.: Maker of Policy, or Tool? Survey Finds Widely Feared Agency Is Tightly Controlled, The New York Times, 25 Apr 1966. Scholarship & press Archived copy
Even some who defend the C.I.A. as the indispensable eyes and ears of the Government -- for example Allen Dulles, the agency's most famous director -- now fear that the cumulative criticism and suspicion, at home and abroad, have impaired the C.I.A.'s effectiveness and therefore the nation's safety.
And President Kennedy, as the enormity of the Bay of Pigs disaster came home to him, said to one of the highest officials of his Administration that he wanted "to splinter the C.I.A. in a thousand pieces and scatter it to the winds."

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