Cia Quote by Valerie Plame

My CIA colleagues were smart, dedicated, funny, and creative. Yes, there was sometimes stifling bureaucracy, boredom, colleagues who never should have been there, and…

— Valerie Plame

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

You know, as director of the CIA, I got an awful lot of intelligence about all the horrible things that could go on across…

— Leon Panetta

As a beat reporter covering the CIA and intelligence world after the terrorist attacks of 2001, I could sense that many things I couldn't…

— Dana Priest

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

I did a book event with a former colleague, Bob Bauer, and was so relieved that he said I got all the CIA stuff…

— Valerie Plame

I suddenly realized at the CIA that I had to make life-and-death decisions about people.

— Leon Panetta

It's much different today than it was during the Cold War. The CIA is not the subject of many books anymore. But that might…

— Nelson DeMille

I spent almost a decade as an undercover officer in the CIA. I was the guy in the back alleys at four o'clock in…

— Will Hurd

I couldn't get a job with CIA today. I am not qualified.

— Porter Goss

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

“After the 11 September attack," March editorializes one morning, "amid all that chaos and confusion, a hole quietly opened up in American history, a…

— Thomas Pynchon