It is inconceivable that a secret intelligence arm of the government has to comply with all the overt orders of the government.

If you were in a room with them, you were in a room full of people that you had to believe would deservedly end up in hell. I guess I will see them there soon.

George H W Bush
If the American people knew what we have done, they would string us up from the lamp posts.

Charles Cabell
People do not want to be told anything they do not believe already.

Allen Dulles
An intelligence service is the ideal vehicle for a conspiracy.

Sydney Gottlieb
I guess there are some things we shouldn't have done.

Richard Helms
Something like that would have leaked out by now.

J Edgar Hoover
Something like that would have leaked out by now.

James Hosty
I’m sorry I ever got the case.

E Howard Hunt
No one is entitled to the truth.

May God have mercy on my soul for the deaths on my name and for the treachery I committed. Betrayal of God and country, what a sad and horrible thing it is.

Nicholas Katzenbach
The public must be satisfied that Oswald was the assassin; that he had no confederates who are still at large.

Curtis LeMay
If you kill enough of them, they stop fighting.

I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal.... Every soldier thinks something of the moral aspects of what he is doing. But all war is immoral and if you let that bother you, you're not a good soldier.

John McCloy
Humility leads to strength and not to weakness. It is the highest form of self-respect to admit mistakes and to make amends for them.

Fletcher Prouty
The Kennedy assassination has demonstrated that most of the major events of world significance are masterfully planned and orchestrated by an elite coterie of enormously powerful people who are not of one nation, one ethnic grouping, or one over-ridingly important business group. They are a power unto themselves for whom those others work. Neither is this power elite of recent origin. Its roots go deep into the past.

Interference in the internal affairs of one nation by another is an unpardonable violation of international law and custom.

Jane Roman
I’m signing off on something that I know isn’t true.

Frank Sturgis
Where is the fortune?

Jolly West
You can fight city hall. You can change the world. It might not seem like much of a change at the time, but you have the power as an individual to do a great deal.

John Whitten
Helms wanted someone to conduct the investigation who was in bed with the FBI, I was not, and Angleton was.

James Wilcott
CIA people killed Kennedy.