"President Reagan’s Executive Order in 1981 also “permits” the CIA to “enter into arrangements with state and local police,” which certainly facilitates violating state and local laws. CIA officers with such “arrangements” and “police cover in the form of badges and other identification” can obviously exercise “police” and “law enforcement” powers, both of which are prohi [...]

In January 1982, President Ronald Reagan approved a CIA plan to sabotage the economy of the Soviet Union through covert transfers of technology that contained hidden malfunctions, including software that later triggered a huge explosion in a Siberian natural gas pipeline, according to a new memoir by a Reagan White House official. Thomas C. Reed, a former Air Force secretary who was serving in [...]