What he found was unsettling: the CIA employed too many mediocre personnel; it suffered from leaks; the agency’s relations with the armed services were terrible, and not much better with the State Department; the covert operations office had become too large and messy and needed a “complete reorganization.”33 In private Doolittle was even more critical. On October 19, 1954, he met with Eisenhower in the White House and made clear that he thought the CIA’s main problem was Allen Dulles himself.
