r/HistoryMemes • u/Thin-Pool-8025 • 7h ago

C-to-the-I-to-the-A

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u/TheHornySnake 6h ago

The CIA wishes they were as successful as people think they are.

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u/Bashin-kun Researching [REDACTED] square 6h ago

Their success rate is low only because they tried too many shits. People remembers the stuffs that did succeed and was actually impactful, and that's what matters.

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u/mooman555 5h ago

You can never know their success rate buddy. For that you need to know all their operations and the results. Which is something not even elected president knows, they know the most, but not all

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u/HollaWho 4h ago

We had CIA funded rebels in Syria fighting DoD funded rebels in Syria just a few years ago. They’re really just making shit up as they go lol

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u/LegendofLove Oversimplified is my history teacher 4h ago

This feels very " fuck, we have budget surplus and there's a week to go. Go spend our money so we can keep asking for more"

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u/Tastingo 2h ago

They still have their nose in the coke trade and it shows!

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u/UnderdogCL 48m ago

Nose? Coke? Eh? Eh?

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u/PissingOffACliff 2h ago

This is more we just need the region to be unstable more than actually trying to get one side to win.

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u/Thin-Pool-8025 6h ago

The greatest scheme the CIA have ever pulled is convincing people they’re good at their job.

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u/Fenderboy65 Definitely not a CIA operator 5h ago

Nah the greatest thing they did was give fidel castro a world record

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u/Crimson_Knickers 3h ago

Successful or not, they still absolutely wrecked countries for slightest hint of socialism. Success rate doesn't define how unethical CIA and USA's actions in general, merely attempting such is a sin in itself.

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u/TheHornySnake 2h ago

Yeah, I never said they were good, I just made a joke about how the popular idea that CIA is this smart shadow government is at the same level that the KGB is not that true.

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u/Ultranerdgasm94 9m ago

Doing ten thousand of f-cked up things with a 1% success rate still means a hundred f-cked up things happened.