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I've often found, as I did with 'Bourne,' where I was inspired by the events of Iran-Contra when I designed the CIA for the 'Bourne' franchise, that the reality of how things work is usually more compelling than the superficial, made-up version that Hollywood sometimes does.

~Doug Liman

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I thought I was done making CIA movies after 'The Bourne Identity.' I really had used my father's work in Iran-Contra on 'The Bourne Identity.' You get one experience like that in your life where you have personal exposure to something, and you put it in a movie. That's it.

~Doug Liman

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I love that Barry Seal is working for the CIA, and he's an awful liar. It just goes to how honest this character is at the end of the day, even as he rips off the country and the world to the tune of becoming one of the wealthiest men in America. There's an innate honesty, a purity to him.

~Doug Liman

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Just this week, Syria broke off all relations with the United States military and the CIA.

~Ed Markey

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If an NSA, FBI, CIA, DIA, etc analyst has access to query raw SIGINT databases, they can enter and get results for anything they want. Phone number, email, user id, cell phone handset id (IMEI), and so on - it's all the same.

~Edward Snowden

Topics: Access Analyst Anything Cell Cell Phone Cia Databases Email Enter Etc Get Id Number Phone Phone Number Raw Results Same User Want Fbi Nsa

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Most of the secrets the CIA has are about people, not machines and systems, so I didn't feel comfortable with disclosures that I thought could endanger anyone.

~Edward Snowden

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In the case of Pakistan, the CIA actually used a fake vaccination campaign to try to locate Osama bin Laden, so now vaccination is associated with espionage.

~Eula Biss

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I wouldn't even know - and I spent three years in the CIA - I wouldn't even know how you'd start a covert action program in a place like Iran. It would be extraordinarily difficult.

~Frank Carlucci

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In examining the CIA's past and present use of the U.S. media, the Committee finds two reasons for concern. The first is the potential, inherent in covert media operations, for manipulating or incidentally misleading the American public.

~Frank Church

Topics: American American Public Cia Committee Concern Covert Examining Finds First Inherent Manipulating Media Misleading Operations Past Potential Present Public Reasons Two Use

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I'm going to be so much better a president for having been at the CIA that you're not going to believe it.

~George H. W. Bush

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