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In reply to the discussion: Greenwald: Leaked Docs Reveal Agency's (GCHQ) Digital Propaganda Toolkit [View all]Octafish
(55,745 posts)"...It is now clear that we are facding an implacable enemy whose avowed objective is world domination by whatever means and at whatever cost. There are no rules in such a game. Hitherto acceptable norms ofhuman conduct do not apply. If the United States is to survive, long-standing American concepts of 'fair play' must be reconsidered. We must develop effective espionage and counterespionage services and 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 that the American people be made acquainted with, understand and support this fundamentally repugnant philosophy..."
Report on the Covert Activities of the Central Intelligence Agency (1954). Committee members: J.H. Doolittle (chairman), William B. Franke, Morris Hadley, and William D. Pawley
PDF: http://www.foia.cia.gov/sites/default/files/document_conversions/45/doolittle_report.pdf