Mike Benz: ‘CIA is Second Fiddle - State Department Calls the Real Shots’

BENZ: “I always try to stress that the CIA is second fiddle in everything it does. It is, it only exists for two purposes. One is, it is a plausibly deniable support agency for the State Department to pursue state department goals, or it’s a plausibly deniable covert support unit for the military for paramilitary DoD activity.

… behind every dirty cloak and dagger CIA operation is a dirty Assistant Secretary at the State Department or a dirty member of the State Department's policy planning staff, or a dirty under Secretary of Defense, or a dirty person on the National Security Council who's coordinating that.”