Revealed in the recent document dump from the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection as mandated by a presidential directive was just how extensively and deeply the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had penetrated into State Department functions.
In June 1961, White House aide Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., complained to President John F. Kennedy that the CIA had nearly as many people under official cover in its embassies as were actual State Department diplomats.1
Schlesinger cited some stunning figures: In the political section of the U.S. embassy in Vienna, 16 of the 20 people as listed in the October 1960 Foreign Service List, a quarterly State Department publication of personnel assignments, were CIA case officers, as were over half of the 31 officers listed as engaging in reporting activities.
Similarly, 11 of the 13 officers in the political section in the embassy in Chile were CIA. The CIA had 128 people in the embassy in Paris, and they had taken over the political reporting functions that previously was the domain of State Department diplomats. In fact, these CIA officials had begun to monopolize contact with French politicians.
According to Schlesinger, the State Department had about 3,900 officials stationed in other countries, whereas the CIA had 3,700. In other words, almost half of the political officers in U.S. embassies were CIA officials. About 1,500 of those CIA officials were under State Department cover, while presumably the other 2,200...
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