It doesn't do much intelligence. Intelligence is gathered by other assets throughout the Government, also.
Covert operations is their big money deal.
There is no law, there is no structure, for covert operations. The Government didn't confront that in 1947 when they wrote the law. There has been no revision of the law to accommodate that. . . . The single primary character of the CIA is Mr. Dulles. There's no question about it, it was his agency.