Originally Posted by F4E Mx

The CIA video was an attempt to rationalize the dozens of credible eyewitness accounts that saw streaks going up to TWA 800. In the CIA video the explosion in the center fuel tank blows the nose and first class section off, the aircraft is aflame, and then climbs very steeply 4,000 feet before nosing over and crashing. The aircraft climbing steeply while on fire is what the witnesses saw, not missile trails, according to the CIA. The narrator specifically says they were no missiles and it is also in big black letters for anyone who may have a lingering doubt. Everyone from a high-school kid who builds model airplanes to Boeing called it an impossible farce. So why was the CIA involved at all and how could they be so stupid?