The CIA’s Covert Actions and True Mission

Abstract

The paper examines how true the Central Intelligence Agency's involvement in international regime shifts is to its official mission of protecting the US national security. The analysis is accomplished by detailing a variety of the Agency's tactics in government deposition and then presenting evidence-based paragraphs for each tactic. The tactics include manipulating elections, supporting pro-US leaders, destabilizing governments, and triggering the country's deterioration into chaos. Counterarguments are addressed and considered prior to reaching the conclusion. Finally, based on the wide variety of assessed primary and secondary sources, a conclusion is reached that the CIA's official mission is a disguise for power-expansionist ambitions demonstrated in the Agency's role in the assistance of regime overthrows.