&gt; The CIA is a sickening and surprisingly amateurish organisation. Their actions over the past decades have ruined the United States&#x27; international moral authority.<p>I&#x27;m not even sure that&#x27;s true. I think the perception of the CIA (perhaps due to generally positive portrayals of it on TV and in movies) is completely different to, say, the perception people have of the Stasi or KGB.<p>And yet did those organizations, which people rightly consider to be bad, actually do anything worse than the CIA has been doing in the last 70 years?