CIA Misdeeds Disclosed

Re “3 Ex-CIA Directors Blamed for Agency Role in Misdeeds,” Nov. 1:

CIA analysts knowingly passed information from compromised sources to two Presidents without telling them. Hire the KGB and fire the CIA.

LEWIS COHEN

Riverside

* The CIA must go. It has entertained us with fiascoes all over the world, capping them with the greatest debacle of all, the Aldrich H. Ames case. Some agents engage in bizarre acts. For example, one agent suggested that if our country is endangered, we should suspend the Constitution and declare martial law for the entire country. After 40 years of misinformation and disinformation, we’ve had all we can take. The Ames damage assessment was the final blow. Disband the CIA!

DON RADEMACHER

Glendale

* I suggest that Sen. Sam Nunn (D-Ga.) and Sen. Joseph Lieberman (D-Conn.) spend more time watching the CIA and less time watching daytime TV talk shows (“Bennett, Allies Open Fire on Daytime TV Talk Shows,” Oct. 27).

DAVID WILSON

Studio City

* As we assess the Cold War one thing becomes more clear with each new revelation. The United States consistently overestimated the Soviet threat in order to justify an unprecedented military buildup. A buildup that benefited the military-industrial complex in general and California in particular. A buildup that we will continue to pay for via our pocketbooks, our environment and in our ability to contain nuclear terrorism.

Ronald Reagan, our spokesman against the “Evil Empire,” appointed California military industrialists to key positions in his Administration. Was it in their interest to hear that the Soviet threat was inflated and we didn’t have to send all those defense dollars out West? Maybe the new CIA disclosures simply tell us about some employees who knew what their bosses wanted to hear.

RYAN ULYATE

Woodland Hills