Book Quote by Nelson DeMille

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

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

— Jesse Ventura

The world has changed, the CIA is having to change, and again, the challenge for someone like me as a spy novelist is to…

— David Ignatius

By the late '70s I had come to question the point of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms of the…

— Aldrich Ames

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

From the outside, the CIA seems pretty exotic, but from the inside, it's a big bureaucratic place. Think 'post office with spies.'

— Barry Eisler

There's been a coup, have you heard? It's the CIA coup. The CIA runs everything, they run the military. They're the ones who are…

— Ron Paul

We know that, immediately after 9/11, the CIA set up a program to collaborate with 80 foreign countries to varying degrees. The CIA also…

— Trevor Paglen

The CIA is an incompetent bureaucracy, generally.

— Robert Baer

Everything the CIA does is deniable. It's part of its Congressional mandate. Congress doesn't want to be held accountable for the criminal things the…

— Douglas Valentine

“What about the role of the CIA in a democratic society? Is that an oxymoron? You could imagine a democratic society with an organization…

— Noam Chomsky

The CIA is absolutely out of control. The CIA has been on a killing spree... The CIA has become a death squad and to…

— Medea Benjamin