- Nov 07, 2020
CIA Quotes
Secrets, suspicion, and the mystique of the agency.
These quotes move between conspiracy-tinged jokes about CIA operations and firsthand reflections from someone who actually held a top-secret clearance and served.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Powerful
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Panetta/Petraeus combo is a powerful tandem. I've seen both of them up close and personal at the CIA and in Iraq.
- Military
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fact is, psychiatric help is not widely available to CIA agents - and as in the military, there is a stigma attached to admitting post-traumatic stress.
- Nov 07, 2020
When I was younger, I actually wanted to be a CIA agent. Really. I even did the online questionnaire.
- Nov 07, 2020
The CIA's research program is described in a book called The Search for the Manchurian Candidate.
- Campaign
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- Nov 07, 2020
The CIA's drone campaign is extraordinarily effective, and the agency is getting progressively better at targeting senior leaders and disrupting their networks.
- Nov 07, 2020
Breaking a cardinal rule of spy craft, I actually let it be known that I wanted to work for the CIA.
- FBI
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- Nov 07, 2020
Internal fights between various agencies, i.e. between the CIA and FBI, are highly counterproductive.
- FBI
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the 1960s, after the Cuban Revolution, CIA and FBI agents often coordinated their activities with anti-Castro Cuban exiles.
- Military
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just this week, Syria broke off all relations with the United States military and the CIA.
- Got
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- Nov 07, 2020