The CIA is so tight with the media that we can no longer know what is true and what isn’t.

"The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media."
    — William Colby, former CIA Director, quoted by Dave Mcgowan, Derailing Democracy

"You could get a journalist cheaper than a good call girl, for a couple hundred dollars a month."
    — CIA operative, discussing the availability and prices of journalists willing to peddle CIA propaganda and cover stories. Katherine the Great, by Deborah Davis

"There is quite an incredible spread of relationships.  You don’t need to manipulate Time magazine, for example, because there are [Central Intelligence] Agency people at the management level."
    — William B. Bader, former CIA intelligence officer, briefing members of the Senate Intelligence Committee, The CIA and the Media, by Carl Bernstein

"The Agency’s relationship with [The New York] Times was by far its most valuable among newspapers, according to CIA officials.  [It was] general Times policy … to provide assistance to the CIA whenever possible."
    — The CIA and the Media, by Carl Bernstein

"Senator William Proxmire has pegged the number of employees of the federal intelligence community at 148,000 … though Proxmire’s number is itself a conservative one.  The "intelligence community" is officially defined as including only those organizations that are members of the U.S. Intelligence Board (USIB); a dozen other agencies, charged with both foreign and domestic intelligence chores, are not encompassed by the term….  The number of intelligence workers employed by the federal government is not 148,000, but some undetermined multiple of that number."
    — Jim Hougan, Spooks

"For some time I have been disturbed by the way the CIA has been diverted from its original assignment.  It has become an operational and at times a policy-making arm of the government….  I never had any thought that when I set up the CIA that it would be injected into peacetime cloak and dagger operations."
    — former President Harry Truman, 22 December 1963, one month after the JFK assassination, op-ed section of the Washington Post, early edition (this was in 1963..imagine how much they have consolidated their gains since then)

"I want to splinter the CIA in a thousand pieces and scatter it to the winds."
    — former President John F. Kennedy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTxOMWqrCJ4