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When I was about, I`d say, 18 or 19 years old, I wanted to be a part of the CIA just because they know those intimate secrets... So I was just always into knowing. I like to know things.

- Michelle Rodriguez

In recent years, anyone in the government, certainly anyone in the FBI or the CIA, or recently, in again, Clint`s film, In the Line of Fire (1993), the main bad guy is the chief advisor to the president.

- Charlton Heston

In recent years, anyone in the government, certainly anyone in the FBI or the CIA, or recently, in again, Clint`s film, In the Line of Fire, the main bad guy is the chief advisor to the president.

- Charlton Heston

The two things I was positive about in life were that I was going to be a teacher at a boarding school or an operative with the CIA posted abroad. I could write a book about all the things I was sure about.

- Tucker Carlson

(to a reporter who asked him, after the Lewis `Scooter` Libby trial was over, to talk about the Valerie Plame leak case--Plame was an undercover CIA officer whose identity was leaked by Bush administration sources--which he promised he would do after the trial was over) It`s run its course. Now we`re going to move on. Next question.

- George W. Bush

The CIA could not face up to the American people and admit that its former employees had conspired to assassinate the President; so from the moment Kennedy`s heart stopped beating, the Agency attempted to sweep the whole conspiracy under the rug.

- Jim Garrison

The head of the CIA, it seems to me, would think long and hard before he admitted that former employees of his had been involved in the murder of the President of the United States-even if they weren`t acting on behalf of the Agency when they did it.

- Jim Garrison

It would certainly be interesting to know what the CIA knew about Oswald six weeks before the assassination, but the contents of this particular message never reached the Warren Commission and remain a complete mystery.

- Jim Garrison

There was a great campaign to make life difficult for Vladimir Putin when he came in. Nobody ever mentions that George Bush senior was head of the CIA. What`s the difference between the CIA and the KGB? Except that probably the KGB are more thorough, intelligent, and more respectful of foreign traditions. - On Russo-American relations

- Peter Ustinov

It`s very important to me that people who are actual chefs and other professionals in the culinary world, understand that I`m not, and have never held myself out as being, like a CIA trained chef.

- Ted Allen

There have been instances throughout this conflict where the intelligence we`ve received from the Defense Department and CIA is wrong, ... How about the weapons of mass destruction? How about the assessment that we were going to be welcomed as liberators?

- Stephen Lynch

Tonight, a surprising new development in the CIA leak investigation. Karl Rove`s testimony to a federal grand jury is being reported. The testimony suggests that President Bush`s political adviser may not have been the original source for the Valerie Plame leak. Rove testifying that he first learned about Plame from columnist Robert Novak, a CNN contributor. Dana Bash reports.

- Lou Dobbs

The Defense Department apparently refused a CIA request to launch an attack on a Syrian terror-sponsoring target within the last two weeks.

- Bill Kristol

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

- Bob Graham

A significant number of pages and sentences that the administration wants to keep in a classified status have already been released publicly, some of it by public statements of the leadership of the CIA and the FBI.

- Bob Graham

It`s pretty well known that the CIA has been installing friendly dictators around the world for years.

- Rob Walton

This is simply an indictment that says, in a national security investigation about the compromise of a CIA officer`s identity that may have taken place in the context of a very heated debate over the war, whether some person -- a person, Mr. Libby -- lied or not.

- Patrick Fitzgerald

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

- Stephen Lewis

I think Mr. Clarke had a tendency to interfere too much with the activities of the CIA, and our leadership at the senior level let him interfere too much. So criticism from him I kind of wear as a badge of honor.

- Michael Scheuer

It`s hard for me to imagine that some people in the CIA who had firsthand knowledge would be unable to recognize that this would be helpful information for a soldier`s death.

- Alan Kearney

The bottom line is that the CIA knew before the war, during and war, and after the war where most of these chemicals were and most of these biological agents.

- Alan Kearney

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

- Albert Alschuler

We need spies that look like their targets, CIA officers who speak the dialects terrorists use, and FBI agents who can speak to Muslim women who might be intimidated by men.

- Algernon Sidney

Rove and his attorneys can parse the words all they want, but it is now clear that while Rove may not have given a reporter Plame`s name, he clearly identified her by telling the reporter that Joseph Wilson`s wife was a CIA agent.

- Altaf Ladak

The office has oversight of people who do analysis and oversight of people who do operations, but it is not charged with doing either. That is an important point to make. Those functions are performed by the CIA, DIA and other agencies.

- Andreas Koepke

It had all the earmarks of a CIA operation; the bomb killed everybody in the room except the intended target!

- Andrew Mwenda

According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahadeen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan, 24 Dec 1979.

- Andrew Stuckey

As you can see, neither the CIA nor the FBI bother me, and I stay neutral with them. Whenever I can help them, I do.

- Anita Drummond

Our direction does not come from the CIA to investigate a disease outbreak.

- Anne Fagan Niven

The CIA did contact the disease agency recently after a London newspaper published a book review six months ago. The book ... said that Saddam Hussein wanted to use the virus

- Anne Fagan Niven

The CIA thoroughly pursued this issue and did so on more than one occasion.

- Arnold Alpert

The office of the inspector general developed this report over two years. During that same time period, much has been done at CIA and throughout the intelligence community to improve and reform the way we do business,

- Arnold Alpert

MaWMR can also now report that the current and recent past Federal probes of various security leaks, criminal activity, and dirty money -- Abramoff, Kidan, CIA leak, Niger bogus documents, AIPACgate, election fraud, Indian gambling casino money laundering, dirty GOP campaign money, Clinton`s

- Ashley Tuiasosopo

The CIA, FBI and other agencies have made some progress in identifying and hiring foreign language experts. But the pipeline doesn`t really exist. They`re drawing from an almost nonexistent pool,

- Barb Graff

Our government is so corrupt that citizens no longer become incensed when they learn the CIA is running drugs into the U.S.

- Barbara Parker