Historian Richard Immerman: CIA is flawed

The CIA has a flaw — it has abandoned its original mission as an intelligence analysis agency, a historian and former government employee said Tuesday in a speech to about 50 people.

Richard Immerman, a former assistant deputy director of national intelligence at the U.S. State Department, gave a lecture in Hamilton Hall as part of a lecture series put on by UNC’s history department.

He said he is critical of the CIA’s transition from an intelligence analysis agency to one that predominately directs covert operations.

“The CIA’s architecture was flawed from design and flawed by design,” Immerman said....