A Disaster Factory For Decades Yet Here We Go Again

The Central Intelligence Agency has run guns to insurgencies across the world during its 67year history from Angola to Nicaragua to Cuba. The continuing effort to train Syrian rebels is just the latest example of an American president becoming enticed by the prospect of using the spy agency to covertly arm and train rebel groups. An internal study has found that it rarely works. The stillclassified review, one of several studies commissioned in 2012 and 2013 in the midst of the O