As Congress asserted its new powers over the CIA, a college student named Richard Blee agonized over whether to follow in the footsteps of his father and join the agency. The Church Committee had investigated the work of his father, David Blee, the CIA’s chief of counterintelligence. The elder Blee emerged from the inquiry unscathed, but officers from his generation felt that the committee had unfairly maligned the CIA as a whole.
