Senator Moynihan proposed dividing the CIA’s functions.

Evidence

SENATOR DANIEL MOYNIHAN, thirty years ago, had a related idea. Break the CIA in two, he said. The intelligence function—the writing of learned research reports about the political situation in various countries—should go to the State Department, which had been doing it all along anyway, and the operational, paramilitary, counterinsurgency side should go to the Department of Defense. — Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Secrets in the…, 315

Categorization

• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Secrets in the…, 315
• XREF: connects to: The CIA narrowly avoided being shut down in the 1970s. — Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Secrets in the…, 315

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• The CIA narrowly avoided being shut down in the 1970s. (similarity 0.84)