April Quote by Erik Larson

The mission of the Gestapo expanded steadily as from 1933 onward, "political criminality" was given a much broader definition than ever before and more…

— Sheila Fitzpatrick

“Neighbors turned surly; petty jealousies flared into denunciations made to the SA—the Storm Troopers—or to the newly founded Geheime Staatspolizei, only just becoming known…

— Erik Larson

I never would have agreed to the formulation of the Central Intelligence Agency back in forty-seven, if I had known it would become the…

— Harry S. Truman

The notion of law enforcement as professional, not political, began developing as an aspiration and an ethos even while, in practice, the FBI was…

— Benjamin Wittes

“Violent anti-communist fears by the military and munition makers justified the transformation of a once democratic nation into the fascist state we have today.…

— Mae Brussell

“[The Soviet State Security Service] is more than a secret police organization, more than an intelligence and counter-intelligence organization. It is an instrument for…

— Allen W. Dulles

A large group of us were crowded into the Gestapo hall, and at that moment the circumstances of all our lives were the same.…

— Etty Hillesum

Just the minute the FBI begins making recommendations on what should be done with its information, it becomes a Gestapo.

— J. Edgar Hoover

If you look at the history of the FBI, it has become effectively America's political police.

— Julian Assange

“First the FSB agent, and now the FBI. It was becoming a real alphabet soup of international espionage.”

— Kenneth Eade

“Sometime in the fifties I remember seeing On the Waterfront in the movies with Mary and thinking that I’m at least as bad as…

— Charles Brandt

We've seen a departure from the traditional work of the National Security Agency. They've become sort of the national hacking agency, the national surveillance…

— Edward Snowden