Is The CIA Needed?

The formation of the OSS during WWII to use counter-intelligence against Germany, Italy and Japan, which would later reform into the CIA. The CIA was created to protect America from deceptive and otherwise unseen threats and to gather intelligence. However, does the CIA protect America's interests, or is it a secret army of the President or a secret army of itself?

I think, it is both. It's secrecy allows it to do things that might be politically unpopular or otherwise imposslbe. Such as displacing political leaders of other nations or influencing political campaigns of other nations. There's a few examples of this, such as Operation Ajax in 1953 in Iran. Or, the CIA's funding of the Liberal Democratic Party in Japan, which has ruled Japan for nearly every year since 1955. (Only years it has not are 1993, 1994, and 2009)

These are things we know the CIA has done, many of the things it does are classified, meaning 'We, the People' are not capable of knowing and it would endanger us to know. That would mean that the CIA is doing things that would endanger us, and if discovered, would definitely be harmful.

The CIA stands for Central Intelligence Agency, so why not gather intelligence and quit the secret special forces mantra? Is the CIA needed? I think not, because it has brought upon this world more things bad than good. For example:

- Islamic Republic of Iran was based on a revolution against a CIA-enabled Regime. They are not an enemy.

- CIA funded a group of freedom fighters that would later fund an attack on September 11, 2001

- CIA helped fund Iraq's war with Iran, that would later be dealt with in the Persian Gulf War and the Second Persian Gulf War. Did I mention they helped get Saddam Hussein (who ran as a 'socialist') elected?