Let Us Now Praise Heinous War Criminals

My fascist brother-in-law is obviously mentally impaired, as evidenced by joining a discredited torture organization and actually praising Project Azorian as a successful intelligence effort.  Everyone, but especially anyone with naval experience, knew it was a colossal boondoggle at best.  I mean, were people really expecting the Soviets to never change their codebooks after years and years, especially when they knew the US was mucking about the North Pacific?  The real rationale for the project was that the paranoid Nixon administration wanted to try to screw with the Soviets.  And of course one of the chief advocates was a heinous war criminal. 

Then again, my brother-in-law also thinks my father was a nuclear physicist, so he's not the most trustworthy source.