Quotes about Cia Operation

Ali Khamenei

America overthrew his government even though Mohammad Mosaddegh had shown no animosity toward us. He stood up to the British and trusted the Americans. He had hoped that the Americans would help him; he had friendly relations with them….Arrogance … required that the Americans ally with the British. They gathered money and brought it here and did their job. When they brought their coup into fruition and had returned the Shah …, they had the run of the country.

This coup has been the biggest trauma for the Iranian people in the last centuries. The blowback from it, has soured relationships between America and Iran for decades. Khamenei personally was traumatized by the coup and publicly refers to it quite frequently. Ironically, reasons and policy logic for the CIA orchestration of the coup are even today murky. The desires of the British may well have been the main reason. “Arrogance” is the term Khamenei uses to describe the British-American alliance and their propensity to try and shape the affairs of other nations.

John F. Kennedy

Maybe if you had printed more about the [Bay of Pigs] operation, you would have saved us from a colossal mistake.

Greg Grandin

'Blowback,' as many 'Nation' readers are aware, was a term introduced into popular circulation by the late political scientist Chalmers Johnson, an old Cold Warrior turned dissident.

Robert Dallek

The CIA's official history of the Bay of Pigs operation is filled with dramatic and harrowing details that not only lay bare the strategic, logistical, and political problems that doomed the invasion, but also how the still-green President John F. Kennedy scrambled to keep the U.S. from entering into a full conflict with Cuba.

Robert Dallek

The Bay of Pigs is one of America's most infamous Cold War blunders, and it has been studied, debated, and dramatized endlessly ever since.

William F. Buckley Jr.

It had all the earmarks of a CIA operation; the bomb killed everybody in the room except the intended target!

Robert Kennedy

Despite the President's orders that no American forces be used, the first two people who landed in the Bay of Pigs [in 1961] were Americans. The CIA sent them in.

Seymour Hersh

HUGE CIA OPERATION REPORTED IN U. S. AGAINST ANTIWAR FORCES

Hirsh had uncovered CIA illegal surveillance of anti Vietnam war protesters in the late 1960s. They broke two sets of laws. First, the CIA had no authority to investigate and track American Citizens anywhere but particularly American citizens. Second, the FBI which did have the authority to investigate Americans, were not allowed to use the methods that the CIA did. They violated not only Federal Law and Rules, but also violated the 4th Amendment Rights of thousands of citizens.

Cia Operation Quotes