Tuesday, June 02, 2015
Quotable: Conspiracy
An intelligence service is the ideal vehicle for a conspiracy. Its members can travel about at home and abroad under secret orders, and no questions are asked. Every scrap of paper in the files, its membership, its expenditure of funds, its contacts, even enemy contacts, are state secrets.
Source: Allen Dulles, US Director of Central Intelligence (1953-1961) as quoted in James Srodes, Allen Dulles: Master of Spies (Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, 1999) p. 252.
See also:
- "Conspiracy Theories and Stylized Facts" by Kurtis Hagen in the Journal for Peace and Justice Studies. (Vol. 21, No 2; 2011) pp. 3-22.
- "Pentagon Proposed Pretexts for Cuba Invasion in 1962" on the National Security Archive web site.
- Conspiracy Theory in America (Austin: Univ. of Texas Pr., 2013) by Lance deHaven-Smith.
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