STATE WITHIN A STATE = DEEP STATE! President Trump just exposed Arthur Schlesinger’s full 15-page memo calling for JFK to break up the CIA in 1961

President Trump just exposed Arthur Schlesinger’s full 15-page memo calling for JFK to break up the CIA in 1961.

Schlesinger called the CIA a rogue “state within a state.”

“No one knows how many potential problems … are being created by CIA clandestine operations.”

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Schlesinger: “The contemporary CIA possesses many of the characteristics of a state within a state.”

“There is no doctrine governing our conduct of clandestine operations.”

Schlesinger slammed the idea that the CIA should “fight fire with fire” to defeat communism.

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Schlesinger: “CIA operations have not been held effectively subordinate to US foreign policy.”

“In short, no one knows how many potential problems for US foreign policy — and how much potential friction with friendly states — are being created at this moment by CIA clandestine… pic.twitter.com/7LYnR3G6uh

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In practice, Schlesinger told JFK, the State Department had become a “rubber stamp” for CIA clandestine operations.

“The concept of ‘contingency planning’ has legitimized the concrete preparation of operations still presumably in a hypothetical stage.”

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— Holden Culotta (@Holden_Culotta) March 19, 2025

In practice, Schlesinger told JFK, the State Department had become a “rubber stamp” for CIA clandestine operations.

“The concept of ‘contingency planning’ has legitimized the concrete preparation of operations still presumably in a hypothetical stage.”

“If a group is assembled… pic.twitter.com/DStcoreq6H

— Holden Culotta (@Holden_Culotta) March 19, 2025

“CIA has effectively ‘made’ policy in many parts of the world.”

“A number of governments still in power know that they have been targets of CIA attempts at overthrow — not a state of mind calculated to stimulate friendly feelings toward” the US.

Schlesinger recalled Assistant… pic.twitter.com/z4v3jsJGyd

— Holden Culotta (@Holden_Culotta) March 19, 2025

Schlesinger proposed that JFK de-couple the CIA’s clandestine operations from its research and analysis work.

“If intelligence is too closely connected with operations, then those committed to a particular operation will tend to select out the intelligence which validates the… pic.twitter.com/z0ExPFbfzx

— Holden Culotta (@Holden_Culotta) March 19, 2025

In conclusion, Schlesinger proposed “a drastic overhaul of the State Department” to rein in CIA clandestine operations.

“The State Department would be granted general clearance authority over all clandestine activity.”

Schlesinger also proposed splitting the CIA into two… pic.twitter.com/8Kp7EPiaym

— Holden Culotta (@Holden_Culotta) March 19, 2025

One month after JFK’s assassination, former President Harry Truman echoed Schlesinger’s fears outlined in this 1961 memo.

“There is something about the way the CIA has been functioning that is casting a shadow over our historic position.”

Truman wrote that he set up the CIA to… pic.twitter.com/CBICgApIrA

— Holden Culotta (@Holden_Culotta) March 19, 2025