Miles A. Copeland Jr. Quotes
What’s the difference between my fabricating reports and your letting your agents do it? At least mine make sense.
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.
Miles A. Copeland Jr., CIA Agent, Businessman & Campaign Activist for George W. Bush, Question asked of Archie Roosevelt, colleague and CIA Station Chief, Quoted in Hugh Wilford, America’s Great Game, 2013
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See Ben Franklin for an earlier similar sentiment {465143}.
Armstrong observed that the notion was not original with him but with Edmund Burke. See {610721}.
Allan Dulles was a long time Director of the CIA.
