Here's an old video of Richard Nixon talking about the CIA. You can listen to Nixon talk about it and make your own decisions. I found an interesting article on the History News Network that mentioned Nixon and the CIA, but you know what - that's for you to research too! Here's a snippet of the article about Nixon and the CIA:
How many secret projects was the CIA helping the White House with anyway?
All of the CIA assistance of Hunt and the White House came during the second half of 1971, when President Richard Nixon was exerting pressure on the agency to turn over its records on the failed Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in 1961. The meeting between Karamessines and Hunt came a week after Helms met Nixon at the White House. Nixon intended to fire Helms for his lack of cooperation on the Bay of Pigs file, but, as I wrote in Nixon’s Gamble, Nixon caved in and vowed to protect the CIA.
Helms knew Hunt was working with the White House on secret projects, and that he was hiring Cuban exiles with CIA ties to work with him. One, Rolando Martinez, one of the Watergate burglars, was on a $100-a-month retainer to tell the agency about developments in the Cuban community, the report said.
Again, the report said, no one at the CIA put it all together.
