Just curious. As far back as I remember I only hear about them destabilizing countries that aren’t fully in the pocket of American powerplayers. Sometimes they assassinate people, sometimes instigate coups, subvert media… and the #1 way to encounter them seems to be to try and take back control locally of one’s country’s oil and other valuable resources.
So my question is, have they ever done anything good?
The precursor to the CIA, the OSS, did some work against nazi germany during ww2. But the CIA has only existed to establish and mantain US hegemony and is explicitly a reactionary institution.