| ECM said: Great job: nice try at having it both ways.
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A good place to look would be here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA
Specifically, go to the Controversies tab, though here's a snippet:
"Areas of controversy about inappropriate, often illegal actions include experiments, without consent, on human beings to explore chemical means of eliciting information or disabling people. Another area involved torture and clandestine imprisonment. There have been attempted assassinations under CIA orders and support for assassinations of foreign leaders by citizens of the leader's country, and, in a somewhat different legal category that may fall under the customary laws of war, assassinations of militant leaders."
There's quite a few things that go beyond that and it's just what's come out in the public eye, but it's pretty safe to say that no country is 'clean'. There's little doubt that every country has done a lot of very questionable things. The CIA has one hell of a record, simply put, but so does the (defunct) KGB, the Russian equivalent. Everyone is plenty dirty, when you get down to ideologies.
