CIA Man was originally released on the album “Virgin Fugs” in 1965. The song essentially calls out the American government for starting wars simply because the leaders don’t agree with each other, for general corruption, and for going to war where we don’t belong.
Who can kill a general in his bed?
Overthrow dictators if they're Red?
Fucking A-man!
CIA man!
Who can buy a government so cheap?
Change a cabinet without a squeak?
Fucking A-man!
CIA man!
Who can train guerrillas by the dozens?
Send them out to kill their untrained cousins?
Fucking A-man!
CIA man!
Who can get a budget that's so great?
Who will be the 51st state?
Who has got the secretest service?
One that makes the other service nervous?
Fucking A-man!
CIA man!
Who can take the sugar from a sack
Pour in LSD and put it back?
Fucking A-man!
CIA man!
Who can mine the harbors of Nicaragua?
Outhit all the hitmen of Chicag-ua?
Fucking A-man!
CIA man!
Who can be so overtly covert?
Sometimes even covertly overt?
Fucking A-man!
CIA man!
Who's the agency well known to God?
The one that copped his staff and copped his rod?
Fucking A-man!
CIA man!
Fucking A-man!
CIA man!
Fucking A-man!
CIA man!
CIA man! CIA man! CIA man! CIA man! CIA man!
CIA!
CIA Man was written by Tuli Kupferberg.
CIA Man was produced by Ed Sanders.