An abstract

Abstract by Ross Decker

After WWII the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) was splintered and in 1947 the National Security Act created the Central Intelligence Agency from one of those pieces. With mounting fears of falling behind in the cold war the Central Intelligence Agency Act was passed which allowed the CIA to conceal its activities from investigation. With this cloak the project MKULTRA could flourish it was responsible for numerous operations ranging from chemical interrogation to mind control on American citizens. Millions of dollars were pored into projects that involved implanting recording devices in cats to use as eavesdropping device to having prostitutes drug there costumers with LSD while CIA agents watched and recorded the preceding for any militaristic use. The CIA still continues to this day to operate in inhuman ways currently in the Abu Ghraib detention center.

In order to stop and regulate practices by the CIA that would be inhuman or questionable in practice it is of the most pressing essentiality to bring about transparency and power limits through direct governmental over sight. This would be done through presidential, senate and judicial reviews as well as approval to conduct any action or receive any founding. By enacting this proposed system the Un-American treatment of Americans and others will not happen again. Some work has been does in order to manage the actions and transparency of the CIA, with the formation of The Church committee, The Rockefeller commission and the standing Senate committee on intelligence, steps are being made but there is still more to be done.