At 75, the CIA is back where it started - countering the Kremlin

CIA Director William Burns testifies before the House Intelligence Committee in March. Burns has focused the agency more on U.S. rivalries with Russia and China. He's been involved in the public release of U.S. intelligence on Russia's military plans in Ukraine, and he's established the China Mission Center at CIA headquarters. (Susan Walsh/AP)

At its creation in July 1947, the CIA delivered briefings to President Harry Truman that would still sound current in today's news feeds.

The many examples include American citizens who couldn't get exit visas to leave the Soviet Union. Moscow's financial and trade disputes with Europe. And intrigue over Soviet dealings with Iran.

Here's CIA Director William Burns just last week at the Aspen Security Forum:

- "These are awful and shameful steps, (for Russia) to hold American citizens for political leverage."