"Fundamentally, the founding fathers of U.S. intelligence were liars....
The better you lied and the more you betrayed, the more likely you were to be promoted. Outside of their duplicity, the only thing they had in common was a desire for absolute power. I did things that, looking back on my life, I regret. But I was part of it and I loved being in it.
If you were in a room with them - the grand masters of the CIA - you were in a room full of people you had to believe would deservedly end up in hell. I guess I will be seeing them there soon."
- James Jesus Angleton
Legendary CIA counterintelligence chief between 1954 and 1975, quoted by David Talbot in "The Devils Chessboard. Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government"
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