The man who proposed this secret, subversive process in 1948, diplomat George Kennan, said later, in light of its consequences, that it was “the greatest mistake I ever made.”[3] President Harry Truman, under whom the CIA was created, and during whose presidency the plausible deniability doctrine was authorized, came to have deep regrets. One month to the day after JFK’s assassination, Truman said he was “disturbed” because the CIA had “become an operational and at times a policy-making arm of the Government. This has led to trouble.…There is something about the way the CIA has been
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