Clair E. George Quotes
This is a business that works outside the law.
In 1992 George was convicted for breaking the law and lying to Congress.
Clair E. George, Director of Clandestine Operations, Central Intelligence Agency, Testimony, House Intelligence Committee, August 1987
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Turner exposed many of the illegal activities of the FBI including “black bag jobs,” warrantless searches, bugs and wiretaps and criticized the FBI for avoiding investigations of organized crime. He had personally been directed to engage in these activities. When he went public, he was fired but no one has denied the specifics of the illegal activities he reported in his books and articles.
This was meant as a criticism of Webster, but must people saw it as a compliment. What Clarridge and other old hands at the CIA could never get straight was that they were supposed to break the other countries’ laws but not the laws of the United States. They were supposed to lie to other countries, but not to our President and Congress. This has been a constant problem for United States intelligence agencies. Some scholars of espionage believe that a good spy or spy master lies so often that it is part of his nature to do so as well as break laws. Psychologically it is difficult for them not to lie to anyone and they have little respect for laws. Webster fired Clarridge when Webster reformed the CIA but in the process he alienated most of the “veterans”.
To depose President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam Conein was one of the first American intelligence operatives in Vietnam. Diem was a creature of the Central Intelligence Agency. An anti-Communist Christian in a Buddhist county, the CIA engineered his rise to power, created his political party, provided him with cash to bribe other Vietnamese politicians, and paid for all the propaganda so he would “win” the Presidential elections. However, he abused the Buddhists, was thoroughly corrupt and ran a corrupt administration, but worst of all from the American point of view, he was unable to motivate the South Vietnamese population to fight the Communists. He reached the point where he was more of a liability, and the CIA, through Conein, engineered a coup d’etat to remove him from power and replace him with a President more to our liking. Though not planned that way, the South Vietnam military officers who we backed in the coup, then murdered Diem, who although ineffective and unsuccessful, had been a friend and ally of the United States. Even President Kennedy felt badly about the outcome. See {634539}.
That is exactly what the IRS did, and in 1931, Capone was imprisoned for tax evasion.
Senator Church was the chairman of the committee. It’s reports (14 in all) are the most extensive documentation of U. S. intelligence ever compiled.
Senator Church was the chairman of the committee. It’s reports (14 in all) are the most extensive documentation of U. S. intelligence ever compiled.
When asked to campaign for his arch-rival James G. Blaine for the presidency: Conkling was the most important Republican in New York State. His Presidential ambitions had been thwarted and he left government to return to his New York law practice. When Blaine became the Republican Presidential candidate, New York Republicans wanted Conkling’s OK to campaign actively for Blaine. Conkling refused. New York State went for the Democrats and Blaine lost the election by a smaller margin than New York’s electoral votes. There are some historians who question whether the quotation is an accurate one or merely apocryphal.
CREEP in the Nixon Campaign. He was himself a convicted Watergate conspirator
Clair Elroy George was a veteran of the Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) clandestine service who oversaw all global espionage activities for the agency in the mid-1980s. According to The New York Times, George was "a consummate spymaster who moved the chess pieces in the CIA’s clandestine games of intrigue".
