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As the CIA and KGB, like God and Satan, fight Miltonic battles across five continents ... — Paul Johnson

It's pretty well known that the CIA has been installing friendly dictators around the world for years. — Rob Walton

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

Famously, the CIA is somewhere where marriages hardly ever last because it's obviously such a strange lifestyle. — Chris Terrio

The 1953 coup was a catastrophe which slammed him [Mosaddegh] to floor, and from which Iran never fully recovered — Christopher De Bellaigue

Throughout my career, I had the great fortune to experience firsthand as well as to witness what it means to be a CIA officer. — John O. Brennan

It seems whenever the government doesn't want anyone to know something, it is all of a sudden critical to national security. — Kenneth Eade

Just this week, Syria broke off all relations with the United States military and the CIA. — Ed Markey

The only way to Cuba is with the CIA. — Phil Ochs

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

The FBI and the CIA hate each other, and they both hate the telephone company. The telephone company, in turn, seems to hate everybody. — John A. Keel

I will splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it into the winds. — John F. Kennedy

We need to contact NSA, CIA, anybody using initials... and the President! — J.C. Allen

The men and women of the CIA are a national treasure. — John O. Brennan

I handed over names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union. — Aldrich Ames

You know, as director of the CIA, I got an awful lot of intelligence about all the horrible things that could go on across the world. — Leon Panetta

The new CIA torture report is 6 million pages long. It's almost as long as a George Clooney pre-nup. — David Letterman

A major theme in all my books is that the CIA is not only the first line of defense but they should also be the first line of offense. — Vince Flynn

Not to mention the CIA which should be, I think, dissolved, it's of no use - a great source of mischief - I don't see any point to the FBI ... — Jerry Brown

Breaking a cardinal rule of spy craft, I actually let it be known that I wanted to work for the CIA. — James Luceno

I'm tired of playing freaking cha-chas, the sassy CIA agent, the best friend homegirl. I'm tired of that! — Melonie Diaz

Why doesn't the CIA hire your grandmother to interrogate terror suspects? She does a much better job than they do of getting classified information. — Meg Cabot

A musical is only as good as its director. The same can also be said for the CIA. — Martin Short

Seventh graders jumped onto the backs of FBI agents. Seniors squared off against the CIA. — Ally Carter

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

By the late '70s I had come to question the point of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms of the CIA's overall charter. — Aldrich Ames

F.B.I and C.I.A use coded words.... Don't be stupid, remove everything which shows the location. Good Luck Killer ! — Deyth Banger

I wouldn't doubt it if the CIA is behind Alcoholics Anonymous. — Scott Stapp

The CIA is an incompetent bureaucracy, generally. — Robert Baer

When the CIA is the place you turn to for moral clarity, Nakamura thought, you might have a problem. — Ramez Naam

Yes, [I am accusing the CIA of] misleading the Congress of the United States, misleading the Congress of the United States. I am. — Nancy Pelosi

The CIA has a plot ... they've used before to get rid of world leaders. Only problem ... is convincing Hussein ... to fly to Dallas. — Bill Hicks

I do believe that during the Bush-Cheney administration, that Vice President Cheney set a tone and an attitude for the CIA. — Nancy Pelosi

I know that if I ever become truly alive, truly spiritual, truly one with God, the CIA will kill me ... — Anonymous

When it comes to the assignment of blame, the CIA has by and large been a luckless organization. — Charles McCarry

We all know Damian's big on secrecy. The man makes the CIA look like a gabfest. He is Mr Need-To-Know.
As in, students never need to know. — Tera Lynn Childs

I'm going to be so much better a president for having been at the CIA that you're not going to believe it. — George H. W. Bush

The CIA's research program is described in a book called The Search for the Manchurian Candidate. — Ken Follett

If he'd expected to be pampered and coddled through his undercover assignments, he would have gone to work for the CIA. — Julie James

I'm with the federal government, Drummond, Trust me is another way of saying I'm lying. — Brian Haig

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's resources should be focused on monitoring terrorists in caves-not polar bears on icebergs. — John Barrasso

The CIA special unit that was searching for Osama bin Laden has been disbanded. So I guess, mission accomplished. — David Letterman

Every responsible chief in the CIA knows that the more covert the action, the greater the need for a clear policy and a defined target. — Tyler Drumheller

Yale has influenced the Central Intelligence Agency more than any other university, giving the CIA the atmosphere of a class reunion. — Gaddis Smith

Since 9/11, the U.S.A. Patriot Act has torn down the invisible wall that was perceived as preventing the FBI and CIA from sharing information. — Ronald Kessler

The CIA has been at the root of every dirty little war America has fought in this century. The CIA and dollar diplomacy. — Stephen King

I tell you, I'm half tempted to break into CIA custody just so I can break Joe Solomon out of CIA custody just so I can break Joe Solomon — Ally Carter Only The Good Spy Young

He wrote a novel, The Moon Is Down, for a precursor to the CIA, — John Steinbeck

The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business. — Lyndon B. Johnson

When you work for DC, it's sort of like working for the CIA. You have a vow of silence. — Jason Fuchs

We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the US public believes is false. — William J. Casey

The denials, if they need be given, could better be given with sincerity, and they could only be feigned if you didn't know them at all. — Kenneth Eade

Is it 'left' to insist that presidents and CIA directors adhere to the law? I don't think so. I think it's American. — Anthony Lewis

Rule number one. The good guys always win.
Rule number two. If the good guys lose, we play again. — Charles S. Faddis

Next time
we will roll out the red carpet for you in the United States of Arabia, my brethren! — Leonard Leventon

Weiner, T.: Legacy of Ashes (The history of CIA). — Anonymous

As Far As People Who Ran The Show, It Was The Highest Levels of NATO, the U.S., MI6, CIA And The Pentagon — Sibel Edmonds

I expect the worst, and I am sure I won't be disappointed. — Walter Bedell Smith

To the CIA, everyone's an outsider. — Tim Weiner

My Life in CIA is the first time that I've ever written a story in my own name. — Harry Mathews

Disinformation is a large part of its[CIA] covert action responsibility, and the American people are the primary target of its lies. — Ralph McGehee

How did you not know they broke up? You usually monitor his social media like he's al-Qaeda and you're the CIA. — Heather Cocks

It doesn't take long to become aware of the presence of the CIA in Laos. — Noam Chomsky

I'm a spy ... I worked for the CIA 15 years. The cover was I worked for the insurance business. — Tom Clancy

It is illegal for the CIA to spy on Americans and an affront to our Republic to spy on the Senate. — Rand Paul

Obviously, successful secret assassinations are not recorded as assassination at all," notes the CIA's 1959 "Study of Assassination. — Frederick Ingram

The CIA was always looking to tie every kind of criminal activity in the Middle East to al Qaeda. — Kenneth Eade

The post office actually achieves its mission. I wish we could say the same of the CIA. — Barry Eisler

I learned later, just as a footnote, that the World Assembly of Youth was a CIA front. — Stephen Lewis

The CIA agent looked more dead than alive. Alex wondered if he had been hit, but there was no sign of any blood. Perhaps he was in shock. — Anthony Horowitz

We need to make is to strengthen the position of the director of the CIA. — Bob Graham

Last night when I was commenting on the FBI and the CIA, the sound went off for 27 minutes. I should have known better. — Jimmy Carter

I think cleaning house at the CIA needed to happen. — Pete Hoekstra

In the intelligence community, a rumor was almost as good as a confirmation. — Kenneth Eade

It had all the earmarks of a CIA operation; the bomb killed everybody in the room except the intended target! — William F. Buckley Jr.

My literal responsibility as director of the CIA with regard to covert action was to inform the Congress - not to seek their approval; to inform. — Michael Hayden