Here is a book by a DEA agent involved in this:
Franky, if you were familiar with the public information about the Iran-Contra scandal, this wouldn’t surprise you at all. The fact that the American public is ignorant of what happened there is testament to the competence of our propaganda machine.
If that were true, I wouldn’t have a problem with them either, but it has not been the case since they orchestrated the coup in Iran in 1953. They have staged a lot of coups since then, never with any kind of permission from congress. After they started down that path with the Iran coup (which was explicitly about oil), Truman, the president who established the organization, had this to say about it:
“Now, as nearly as I can make out, those fellows in the CIA don’t just report on wars and the like, they go out and make their own, and there’s nobody to keep track of what they’re up to. They spend billions of dollars on stirring up trouble so they’ll have something to report on. They’ve become … it’s become a government all of its own and all secret. They don’t have to account to anybody.”
and plenty more:
