the purposes of the Central Intelligence Authority are limited definitely to purposes outside the country."
As a result of reforms pressed by the Congress and implemented by various directors (DCIs) of the CIA in the 1970s and improvement in cooperation between the CIA and FBI after J. Edgar Hoover died, this concern disappeared. Recently, charges have been made that the CIA was involved through its activities in support of the Nicaraguan contras in the 1980s in a conspiracy to sell crack cocaine in the United States. Former CIA DCI John Deutch had the new CIA Inspector General Frederick Hitz investigate these allegations. Hitz found no credible evidence that any such conspiracy ever existed, which has satisfied most if not all of the agency's critics.
Control over covert operations abroad. The second set of concerns in the 1970s and again in the 1980s was that the DO had engaged in covert operations abroad which were not sanctioned by law, such as the planned assassination of foreign political leaders like Fidel Castro. Most
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