In 1974, Goss was formally appointed to the City Council of Sanibel, Florida and was later elected as the city’s mayor. Time passed while Goss assumed a prominent Republican Party status in Florida politics while still on the CIA payroll. In 1983, Goss was abruptly appointed by Florida’s Governor, Bob Graham, to be on the Lee County Commissioner Board. By 1988, Goss had attained so much political popularity and leverage that he declared himself a candidate for Congress with Republican Party approval, and subsequently won a seat in the House of Representatives while still employed by the CIA. This premeditated failure to disclose his professional association and alignment with the CIA to the Florida electorate was in violation of federal election law. What Goss has done in Congress since 1988 to advance the conservative Republican and CIA-NSA agendas may only be a matter of speculation. Yet, his appointment by Dubya as CIA Director, in 2002, came as no surprise to those who were aware of Goss’s continued association with the agency. His immediate confirmation by the U.S. Senate was quite laughable, with those senior committee Senators, who knew about Goss’ ongoing association with the CIA, pretending that he actually retired in 1970. The truth about the Goss merger, of the intelligence community with the military and federal politics, is certainly appalling, and begs the question of how many more active spies have been elected to Congress as senators and representatives?

The stark reality about the CIA is frequently difficult to handle, especially by those who elevate its leaders to high positions on the morality pedestal. What we do know as facts about the CIA, after its inception in 1948, comprises a litany of corruption, deceit, and false representations to the American public. Remember that it was the CIA that covertly used American soldiers and marines in Vietnam, in 1968 and later, as guinea pigs in horrible experiments to determine the effects of LSD and other hallucinogenic chemicals on the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese regulars. As many as 200 young soldiers and marines unknowingly suffered permanent neurological damage as a result of the illicit experimentation, of which the Executive Branch has, of course, summarily denied any knowledge.

In 1947, after the Army’s Office of Strategic Services was transformed into the CIA, there was a regular secret flow of Nazi scientists and Gestapo agents, genuine war criminals, into the ranks of the military Intelligence corps, which was the vanguard of the newly organized CIA. This utter hypocrisy practiced by the CIA, and the later-organized NSA, under the nose of Congress, was kept away from the American public through a thoroughly refined Executive Branch propaganda ministry. This well-oiled Machiavellian tax-financed government machine was the later means of keeping the facts about the illegal onset of Vietnam away from the American public. It was before, and after, 1962, that the CIA controlled most of the operational strategies used in Southeast Asia by the U.S. military commands.