Oriana Fallaci Quotes


Arafat contradicts himself every five minutes. He always plays the double-cross, lies even if you ask him what time it is.


Citations

Fallaci, Oriana. The Rage and the Pride. Rizzoli International, 2002, p. 97.

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The then CIA Director, Allen Dulles, fostered a practice of “adjusting” intelligence reports to support ideological policies and theories that were then in vogue. The agents in the field knew what was wanted and many adjusted their reports to coincide with the overall intelligence and policy. The station chiefs and other supervisors often ignored reports of their agents that they knew were not exactly accurate. Copeland however, just fabricated reports and “information” from sources. The honesty and integrity of the CIA intelligence operations have varied from time to time and depended much on the CIA Director at the time. Allen Dulles, though brilliant and able, fostered an ideological intelligence agency. He even went so far as to lie to the President on several occasions.


Oriana Fallaci
Oriana Fallaci
  • Born: June 29, 1929
  • Died: September 15, 2006
  • Nationality: Italian
  • Profession: Journalist

Oriana Fallaci was an Italian journalist, author, and political interviewer. A partisan during World War II, she had a long and successful journalistic career. Fallaci became famous worldwide for her coverage of war and revolution, and her "long, aggressive and revealing interviews" with many world leaders during the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.