E03: Division and Dysfunction –– Nixon Confronts the Intelligence Community
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Refusal by the FBI and CIA to accommodate Nixon’s many demands for intel –– on both domestic terrorists and his political enemies –– prompted the initial development of White House intelligence capabilities, as well as an attempted overhaul of the intelligence community as a whole. But a conflict with J Edgar Hoover sunk the president’s plans and insured that the intelligence community would remain divided at a time when both the FBI and CIA were grappling with social unrest and a new round of public revelations about their illegal covert practices.
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