Liberal Culture

perhaps even Soviet agents---came tonthe ingenious conclusion that insteadnof penetrating the agency to render itnineffectual and transfer its secrets tonMoscow, it would be more useful tondestroy it in full public view throughnlies, fashionable accusations, fantasmagoricnvilification, in other words, bynlaunching an anti-CIA witch-huntnwhich would destroy the very idea . . .