A counterfactual for intel history nerds only: I wonder how much mess the CIA might have avoided in the late 1950s/early 1960s if Lyman Kirkpatrick had not fallen ill and had been named clandestine service chief.
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Now this is neat
aug 29, 2025, 2:21 pm • 3 0 • view
I don’t think Kirkpatrick was on that cowboy shit Bissell—brilliant yet reckless—was pushing
aug 29, 2025, 2:24 pm • 3 0 • view
As an Intel nerd and a burgeoning fiction writer, this makes me want to write an alternate history exactly on what you described
aug 29, 2025, 2:28 pm • 2 0 • view
Going through declassified docs from that era and Kirkpatrick emerges as such a sharp thinker
aug 29, 2025, 2:18 pm • 11 0 • view