One month after JFK's assassination by the Central Intelligence Agency, the president who had signed this rogue agency's creation into law expressed these regrets: "For some time I have been disturbed by the way CIA has been diverted from its original assignment. It has become an operational and at times a policy-making arm of the Government. This has led to trouble and may have compounded our difficulties in several explosive areas." Harry S. Truman, Washington Post (December 22, 1963)