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For decades, the men at Area 51 thought they'd take their secrets to the grave. At the height of the Cold War, they cultivated anonymity while pursuing some of the country's most covert projects. Conspiracy theories were left to popular imagination.

~Annie Jacobsen

Topics: Anonymity Area Cold Cold War Conspiracy Country Covert Cultivated Decades Grave Height Imagination Left Men Most Popular Projects Pursuing Secrets Some Take Theories Thought War Were While

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You begin to realize that hypocrisy is not a terrible thing when you see what overt fascism is compared to sort of covert, you know, communal politics which the Congress has never been shy of indulging in.

~Arundhati Roy

Topics: Been Begin Communal Compared Congress Covert Fascism Hypocrisy Know Never Politics Realize See Shy Sort Terrible Terrible Thing Thing Which You

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The Congress has historically played covert communal politics in order to create what in India we call vote banks where you pit one community against another and so on in order to secure votes.

~Arundhati Roy

Topics: Against Another Banks Call Communal Community Congress Covert Create Historically India Order Pit Played Politics Secure Vote Votes Where You

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I am still profoundly troubled by the war in Nicaragua. The United States launched a covert war against another nation in violation of international law, a war that was wrong and immoral.

~Bianca Jagger

Topics: Against Am Another Covert Immoral International International Law Law Nation Nicaragua Profoundly States Still Troubled United United States Violation War Wrong I Am

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Jim Crow laws stripped blacks of basic rights. Despite landmark civil rights laws, many public schools were still segregated, blacks still faced barriers to voting, and violence by white racists continued. Such open racism is mostly gone in America, but covert racism is alive and well.

~Bob Beckel

Topics: Alive America Barriers Basic Blacks Civil Civil Rights Continue Covert Crow Despite Faced Gone Jim Jim Crow Landmark Laws Many Mostly Open Public Public Schools Racism Racists Rights Schools Segregated Still Stripped Violence Voting Well Were White

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When a black man is stopped by a cop for no apparent reason, that is covert racism. When a black woman shops in a fancy store and is followed by security guards, that is covert racism. It is more subtle than 1960s racism, but it is still racism.

~Bob Beckel

Topics: Apparent Black Cop Covert Fancy Followed Guards Man More Racism Reason Security Shops Still Stopped Store Subtle Than Woman 1960S

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In reality the workings of your governing system are opaque and covert, while hiding in the chattering spotlight of an ostensible transparency, even though the ultimate objective is clear.

~Breyten Breytenbach

Topics: Clear Covert Even Governing Hiding Objective Opaque Reality Spotlight System Though Transparency Ultimate While Workings Your

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We operate under the law. Covert action authorities are communicated in a memorandum of notification.

~Cofer Black

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I think there's something very dark in the South African psyche. I think we live a lot of the time in a state of a very low-grade civil war; the levels of violence in South Africa are extremely high. In a way, the civil war that never happened is being played out in a covert way, so we live with a lot of very ugly things.

~Damon Galgut

Topics: Africa African Being Civil Civil War Covert Dark Extremely Happened High Levels Live Lot Never Out Played Psyche Something South South Africa South African State Things Think Time Ugly Very Violence War Way I Think

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The ISI is above all a paramilitary organization. It doesn't do all that much collection of intelligence. It's not a very good spy agency, but it's good at running covert action.

~David Ignatius

Topics: Above Action Agency Collection Covert Good Intelligence Much Organization Running Spy Very

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