CIA Man
The Fugs Lyrics

Who can kill a general in his bed?
Who has the power and ability to assassinate a high-ranking military officer while they sleep?

Overthrow dictators if they're Red?
Can they depose leaders who are aligned with communism or socialism?

Fucking-a man!
This is an expression of agreement or excitement, indicating that the previous lines describe impressive, powerful actions.

(Fucking-A! C-I-A!) CIA Man!
The repetition of the refrain reinforces the idea that the CIA has a wide range of abilities and is capable of using force to accomplish its goals.

Who can find a counter-agent quick?
Who can quickly locate and neutralize foreign agents who are trying to harm the United States?

Especially the ones, themselves, of it?
Encrypted, hidden messages suggest that the CIA can also identify traitors within its own ranks.

Who can plan a riot in Vietnam?
Who can orchestrate and instigate large-scale unrest in a foreign country?

Who can have the troops restore the calm?
Who can also suppress the violence they caused, reestablishing order in the midst of their chaos?

Who can buy a government so cheap?
Who can bribe officials of other countries to enact policies that are favorable to the CIA's interests?

Change a cabinet without a squeak?
Who has the power and influence to remove political leaders and replace them with more cooperative ones, without opposition or sound?

Who can get a budget that's so great?
Who can secure enormous funding from the US government?

Who will be the 51st state?
Who is so influential that they may be regarded as the 51st state, having considerable power and control over US foreign policy?

Who has got the secret-est Service?
Who controls the most secret and elusive intelligence-gathering service, which other spy agencies feel wary of?

The one that makes the other service nervous?
Other intelligence services may feel uneasy because they do not know the extent of the CIA's power and oversight.

Who can cypher anything with zeros?
Who has that caliber of expertise to code and decode any message, even if the message is encrypted with zeros?

Not well known, but simply worth the heros.
Despite not being widely acknowledged, secret code-breaking services are essential for the agency and its operatives.

Who can take the sugar from its sack Pour in LSD and put it back?
Who can extract a substance from a container and add mind-altering drugs before returning the contents?

Who can squash republics like bananas?
Who can intervene and topple democratically elected governments if officials dislike their policies or methods?

Simply if they do not like their social manners?
If the nation's way of operation undermines US interests or involvement, then the CIA can topple those regimes.

Who can train guerrillas by the dozens? Send them out to kill their untrained cousins?
Who can impart military and combat training to non-professional fighters and instruct them to attack inexperienced, civilian targets?

Who can mine the harbors Nicaragua? Out hit all the hitmen of Chicag-ua.
Who can plant explosive devices in Nicaraguan ports, and overpower skilled assassins from Chicago?

Who can be so overtly covert?
Who can publicly maintain an image of transparency and legality, while simultaneously engaging in secret, illegal operations?

Sometimes even covertly overt.
Sometimes the CIA's activities are so publicly displayed that they seem to lack discretion.

Who's the agency well-known to God?
Which intelligence agency can inadvertently overreach to a point that it appears to be omnipotent, like God?

The one that copped his staff and copped his rod?
Which agency seems to have borrowed God's instrument of power (his staff) and his ability to mete out justice (his rod)?

Fucking-a man! CIA Man!
The song concludes with the refrain, affirming the CIA's operation as powerful and influential.

CIA Man!
This is an exclamation meant to recognize the power and capability of the CIA. The last line is repeated to emphasize this point.

C I A
An abbreviation of the agency's name, which reinforces the idea that this song is praising and identifying the CIA as a powerful force in the world.