The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence

Victor Marchetti and John D. Marks

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INTRODUCTION

by Anthony Lewis

Few books change national attitudes. This one did. When it was first published in 1974, the Central Intelligence Agency was regarded by most Americans who had heard of it as an unusually skillful, wise, and successful branch of the United States Government. The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence began a process of public reappraisal,a process that continued through newspaper reports, the work of a presidential commission , and congressional hearings. Over the years the tide of opinion ebbed and flowed; the CIA lost and then regained much of its political support . But there was a lasting change in attitudes, I think: bringing a degree of skepticism toward the agency. an unwillingness to let it continue enjoying a total exemption from the scrutiny to which the Constitution generally makes government subject.

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