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| Some of the cost problems associated with intelligence come from one agency, or even a group within an agency, not accepting the compartmented security practices for individual projects, requiring expensive duplication.<ref name=BenRich>{{cite book |title=Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years of Lockheed |first=Ben R. |last=Rich |publisher=Back Bay Books |year=1996 |isbn=0-316-74330-5 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/skunkworks00benr }}</ref> | | Some of the cost problems associated with intelligence come from one agency, or even a group within an agency, not accepting the compartmented security practices for individual projects, requiring expensive duplication.<ref name=BenRich>{{cite book |title=Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years of Lockheed |first=Ben R. |last=Rich |publisher=Back Bay Books |year=1996 |isbn=0-316-74330-5 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/skunkworks00benr }}</ref> |
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| ==Controversies==
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| {{Main|List of CIA controversies}}
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| {{See also|Human rights violations by the CIA|Allegations of CIA drug trafficking|CIA influence on public opinion|Project Mockingbird|Extraordinary rendition|Assassination of Orlando Letelier|Cubana de Aviación Flight 455|Operation Condor}}
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| Throughout its history, the CIA has been the subject of numerous controversies, both at home and abroad. The agency ran an operation code-named "Chaos" that ran from 1967 to 1974 where they routinely performed surveillance on Americans who were a part of various peace groups protesting the [[Vietnam War]]. The operation was authorized by order of President Lyndon B. Johnson in October 1967 as the CIA gathered the information of 300,000 American people and organizations and extensive files on 7,200 citizens. The program was exposed by the [[Church Committee]] in 1975 as a part of the investigation into the [[Watergate scandal]].<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web |date=June 11, 1975 |title='Operation Chaos': Files on 7,200 |url=https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP90-01208R000100170047-4.pdf |access-date=May 1, 2024 |website='Operation Chaos': Files on 7,200 |publisher=Washington Post}}</ref>
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| The CIA was also linked to the [[Iran–Contra affair|Iran-Contra Affair]] wherein missiles were sold to the Iranian government as an exchange for the release of hostages and the profits the agency made from selling the weapons at a marked-up price went towards assisting the ''contras'' in Nicaragua.
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| Another source of controversy has been the CIA's role in [[Operation Condor]], which was a United States-backed campaign of repression and state terrorism involving intelligence operations, CIA-backed coup d'états and assassinations against leaders in [[South America]] from 1968 to 1989. By the Operation's end in 1989, up to 80,000 people had been killed.<ref name="Bevins2020">{{cite book |last1=Bevins |first1=Vincent|author-link=Vincent Bevins |title= [[The Jakarta Method]]: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World|pages=266–267 |date=2020 |publisher= [[PublicAffairs]] |isbn= 978-1-5417-4240-6}}</ref>
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| An additional controversy surrounds the Bush Administration's claim that [[Iraq and weapons of mass destruction|Iraq had "weapons of mass destruction"]] in 2002, and again in 2003 as justification for invading the Middle Eastern country. The CIA went along with the claim despite contradicting the president in testimony to the Senate Intelligence Committee in 2002. They produced a national intelligence estimate titled "Iraq's Continuing Programs for Weapons of Mass Destruction". The estimate claimed that if the Iraqi government was able to acquire "sufficient fissile material from abroad, it could make nuclear weapons within a year".<ref>{{Cite web |date=November 19, 2009 |title=(Est Pub Date) Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction Programs |url=https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/DOC_0001327062.pdf |access-date=May 1, 2024 |website=CIA Reading Room: Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction Programs}}</ref>
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