President Truman (1947): "We want no Gestapo or secret police"

[kpete]

President Truman (1947),

"We want no Gestapo or secret police. FBI is tending in that direction. They are dabbling in sex-life scandals and plain blackmail... J. Edgar Hoover would give his right eye to take over, and all congressmen and senators are afraid of him".

http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/apr2013/michaelc43-4.htm

[villager]

1. "On the other hand, why don't I allow them to form the CIA?"

Kind of a mixed message there, Harry.

[roamer65]

2. Thank you.

That dichotomy popped right into my mind.

But I do believe that Truman later on was critical of the CIA, feeling it had overstepped is bounds. Rather similar to how Wilson felt later on about the consolidation of credit under the Federal Reserve System.

[orpupilofnature57]

3. Wilson screwed the other 99% of us with his moves .

Sterilization, and categorizing human beings, Duping us in to WWI and paying for it by letting Lecherous Misanthropes form the ' Good ol boy network ' with the worlds money and soldiers lives .