The Criminal aspects of the Reagan-bush years / Joseph P. Trento ; interviewed by Dennis Bernstein.

Joseph Trento, with the National Security News Service, discusses how the CIA got into a position of power, starting with the Truman administration up through the Bush Presidency. He begins with the origins of the CIA during World War II under the Office of Strategic Services (OSS). Its original function was to gather and evaluate information to pass on to the President. With its failure to predict China's intervention in the Korean War, the Agency made itself more useful by promising to carry out covert operations. Trento then goes on to trace the growing role of the CIA as the covert arm of American foreign policy, from Southeast Asia to the to the Middle East and Latin America. Trento also suggests connections between the CIA and the Kennedy assassination, as well as its role in the Carter, Reagan and Bush administrations. He concludes by pointing to the ways in which the CIA is maintaining its position through misinformation and innuendo.|THE CRIMINAL ASPECTS OF THE REAGAN-BUSH YEARS / Joseph P. Trento| interviewed by Dennis Bernstein. - Jospeh Trento, with the National Security News Service, discusses how the CIA got into a position of power, starting with the Truman administration up through the Bush Presidency. He begins with the origins of the CIA during World War II under the Office of Strategic Services (OSS). Its original function was to gather and evaluate information to pass on to the President. With its failure to predict China's intervention in the Korean War, the Agency made itself more useful by promising to carry out covert operations. Trento then goes on to trace the growing role of the CIA as the covert arm of American foreign policy, from Southeast Asia to the to the Middle East and Latin America. Trento also suggests connections between the CIA and the Kennedy assassination, as well as its role in the Carter, Reagan and Bush administrations. He conlcudes by pointing to the ways in which the CIA is maintaining its position through misinfornation and innuendo. RECORDED: KPFA, 1992.