J edgar hoover Quote by Jason Fagone

“Hoover condemned the proposal for the CIA as nothing but the “dreams of visionary but impractical empire-builders.”

— Tim Weiner

“The CIA’s offices in London were no secret to the MI6. In fact, the two agencies were practically kissing cousins.”

— Kenneth Eade

“The CIA has a great reputation and a terrible record. It relies on machines, not men, to understand the other side. They counted Soviet…

— Manreet Sodhi Someshwar

“One final bit of advice. The next time a senior administrator of the CIA tells you she has a national-security crisis ... Leave the…

— Dan Brown

“Like my current cursed relationship with the CIA, as soon as things went to shit back then, I wanted out. Permanently. But, not the…

— Aiden James

There was one moment when J. Edgar Hoover and us had the same distorted lens about who we were - "a real threat," you…

— Bill Ayers

“If J. Edgar Hoover had something like Total Information Awareness, would his agents have used it, as they did all the other means available…

— Christian Parenti

“Sean Ryan looked at the agents from the BND, Interpol, Mossad, Vatican Intelligence, the Vatican’s Central Office of Vigilance, the Secret Service, the Egyptian…

— Declan Finn

“The worst part was that the Brit’s reportage was just spleen-filled editorializing on the lack of ethics in the valley’s board-rooms (a favorite subject…

— Cory Doctorow

“Hell is where time has stopped, where there’s no more innovation. No horizon. No change. I sometimes think Hell would suit the British down…

— Paul Cornell

“The CIA, an agency designed to operate outside the law, was now free to pursue its vision of a new world, to create new…

— Trevor Paglen

“Then, as now, nobody talked about the legacy of Empire. Britain had colonised, owned, occupied or interfered with half the world. We had carved…

— Jeanette Winterson