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"We must learn to fight dirty" (1954)
"If the US is to survive, long-standing American concepts of 'fair play' must be reconsidered... We must learn to subvert, sabotage, and destroy our enemies by more clever, more sophisticated, and more effective methods than those used against us. It may become necessary for the American people to become acquainted with and understand, and support this fundamentally repugnant philosophy." -- World War II Gen. James Doolittle explaining in a secret 1954 report to President Eisenhower why CIA covert operations were needed and what they entailed |