Covert Action Quotes
- Covert action should not be confused with missionary work. — Henry A. Kissinger
- I wouldn't even know - and I spent three years in the CIA - I wouldn't even know how you'd start a covert action program… — Frank Carlucci
- Disinformation is a large part of its[CIA] covert action responsibility, and the American people are the primary target of its lies. — Ralph McGehee
- There is no part of the executive branch that more exists on the outer edge of executive prerogative than the American intelligence community - the… — Michael Hayden
- Revolutionaries who come to power by force of arms usually have great crimes in their background. Leaders who survive campaigns by great powers to destroy… — Stephen Kinzer
- We operate under the law. Covert action authorities are communicated in a memorandum of notification. — Cofer Black
- My literal responsibility as director of the CIA with regard to covert action was to inform the Congress - not to seek their approval; to… — Michael Hayden