Top 18 Covert Action Quotes
#1. 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
#2. We operate under the law. Covert action authorities are communicated in a memorandum of notification.
Cofer Black
#4. Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.
Henry Kissinger
#5. The ISI is above all a paramilitary organization. It doesn't do all that much collection of intelligence. It's not a very good spy agency, but it's good at running covert action.
David Ignatius
#6. The pornography of tough-mindedness, covert action, and preparedness for "peace through strength" has had a predictably hypnotic effect on the legislative branch, turning it from legal watchdog to lapdog.
Christopher Hitchens
#7. Disinformation is a large part of its[CIA] covert action responsibility, and the American people are the primary target of its lies.
Ralph McGehee
#8. I wouldn't even know - and I spent three years in the CIA - I wouldn't even know how you'd start a covert action program in a place like Iran. It would be extraordinarily difficult.
Frank Carlucci
#9. 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
#10. Since that time I have had continuous contact with the persons who were completely unknown to me, except that I knew they would hand whatever information I gave them to the Russian authorities.
Klaus Fuchs
#11. Silas?" She faces me and arches a brow. "I think my mother may be a bitch.
Colleen Hoover
#14. Mahatma Gandhi will always be remembered as long as free men and those who love freedom and justice live.
Haile Selassie
#16. Sitting in a room, alone, listening to a CD is to be lonely. Sitting in a room alone with an LP crackling away, or sitting next to the turntable listening to a song at a time via 7-inch single is enjoying the sublime state of solitude.
Henry Rollins
#17. The attitude is very important. Because, your behavior radiates how you feel.
Lou Ferrigno
#18. Hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.
Ralph Ellison
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