Agency Quote by Mike Pompeo

CIA will continue to pursue every lead; analyze the information we collect with critical, objective eyes; and brief reliable intelligence to protect U.S. forces…

— Gina Haspel

The CIA in real life, we know, is looking for new kinds of cover. It's looking for new platforms, as they like to say,…

— David Ignatius

Well look, CIA is an agency that has to collect intelligence, do operations. We have to take risks and it's important that we take…

— Leon Panetta

Within the Intelligence Community, CIA is the keeper of the human intelligence mission. Technical forms of collection are vital, but a good human source…

— Gina Haspel

What the Agency [CIA] does is ordered by the President and the NSC [National Security Council]. The Agency neither makes decisions on policy nor…

— Philip Agee

The CIA has transformed from an organization created to recruit spies to steal secrets, into a paramilitary organization, a paramilitary force. It's not supposed…

— John Kiriakou

The men and women of the CIA are a national treasure.

— John O. Brennan

If the CIA is going to disrupt future terrorist attacks, it needs to recruit spies to infiltrate those groups in order to disrupt the…

— John Kiriakou

Let's remember, the CIA's job is to go out and create wars.

— Jesse Ventura

As the briefer, my job is to carry CIA's best information and best analysis to the president of the United States and make sure…

— Michael Morell

For some time I have been disturbed by the way the CIA has been diverted from its original assignment. It has become an operational…

— Harry S. Truman

When you're in the CIA, you anticipate the possibility that you'll be betrayed by a foreign government or a source, but you never anticipate…

— Valerie Plame