I'm sure there are people in the USA competent to re-org the CIA and make something of it (again); I am equally certain that person is not likely to get the job of doing it. Sound silly? It is not; that one job has potentially the most power attached to it of any of the various Federal Fiefdoms I am familiar with. Think about it. Think about what manner of TOTAL HELL could be raised having access to that much "sensitive" information about anyone in any country in the world at any time. That one statement should make any one of us shudder just a little at the implications.

I have even gone to such length as to suggest we import someone from the U.K. to head the Agency because they at least train their people in how to handle that level of bureaucratic oversight. We do not. For some reason in the present time, we are not capable of coming up with an education that fits one to do such a job while at the same time inculcating that individual with the degree of patriotism necessary to carry it off.

If you want to take the thing to its logical, idiotic conclusion, we would be ahead of the game to hire someone high up in the KGB to take command and set the policy of engagement for the "Company". That too, is not as dumb as it sounds. You see, after going through the "programmed steps" required to rise up the bureaucratic ladder in that organization (KGB), any one so trained/educated is by definition capable of running/controlling
such an entity in any country and doing a real bang-up job of it. I do mean any country. You say, "but how do we make sure he is working in our best interests and not in some other countries best interests, in short, that he is not spying for someone else?"

Controlling the individual so chosen is not as difficult as you might think. For instance, did you know that it is impossible to lie to someone who has mastered a certain type of training (your eye movement or lack of it will give you away every time); that a true "Lie Detector" as used by real Interragators is absolutely foolproof and makes deception impossible (your heart rate, blood pressure, etc, along with a couple of other little tricks works every time); that a single injection of a small amount of a certain drug (definitely not a "recreation drug") will make you talk all day and half the night? Besides that, with all the obvious checks and balances he would be subject to, Ivan Ivanavich would be in seventh Heaven to hold such a position in this country; the "Perks" would be awesome to him, it would bring him automatic citizenship plus a damn fine salary and retirement plus the admiration of everyone else in the world who did not get chosen for the job.

What the hell, my superiors (or so they thought they were) used to say that my thought processes were about as wierd as it was possible to be; that I always turned every problem upside down and back to front, then seemed to somehow find the gut of the thing while they were still working on how to define it. Oh well, it's always something, and besides, who asked me for my opinion in the first place?

Damn the torpedos, full speed ahead!

Guns to the right of them,
Guns to the left of them,
On rode the brave 600!

:hat