"The Korean War Controversy: An Intelligence" Topic
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Tango01  | 03 Jul 2019 10:02 p.m. PST |
…Success or Failure?. "Less than three years after its creation, the CIA became involved in its first "hot war" after North Korea launched an invasion of South Korea on June 25, 1950. The new Agency conducted an array of espionage and covert operations unilaterally and in support of US Armed Forces taking part in a UN coalition. The most persistent controversy about the CIA and the Korean War concerns whether the Agency warned US policymakers that North Korea would attack its southern neighbor. As is typical in situations involving warning, the reality is complex, and a collection of declassified CIA documents help dispel widely held assertions that the Agency committed a serious intelligence failure…"
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| Thresher01 | 03 Jul 2019 10:24 p.m. PST |
One can't "commit a serious intelligence failure", since intelligence failures are really more passive, and not done on purpose, at least most of the time (political expediency, and threats, notwithstanding). |
| Legion 4 | 04 Jul 2019 6:51 a.m. PST |
Intell failure was just one of the negatives. That and the USA not prepared at all after the downsizing after WWII. |
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