(EST PUB DATE) IMPACT OF THE "MONSTER PLOT" ON CIA'S POSITIVE INTELLIGENCE AND CI MISSIONS

Approved for Release: 2019/06/18 C01324278 -- 166 -- CHAPTER X IMPACT OF THE "MONSTER PLOT" ON CIA'S POSITIVE INTELLIGENCE AND CI MISSIONS The effect of "mirror reading" analysis, as practiced by many officers of SB Division during the 1960's, was to impede the dc' elopment of new sources of infoimation. This technique also cast doubt on the bona fides of existing agents and sources, and caused confirmable information to be treated with skepticism if it had been received from a supposedly "taint...