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"I wasn't privy to all of the intelligence that was coming in about Guatemala, but I did see the traffic that was coming in from Guatemala City, because it was very relevant to me, and of course I exchanged what I had with the chief of station in Guatemala City."
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"Intelligence is often worshiped, even when that intelligence allows unfathomable injustice and suffering to occur under its smart watch."
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"Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence."
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"What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult."
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"I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times."
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"Some people are street-smart, some people are book-smart, but most people are just dumber than dirt."
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"Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best, he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear his shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house."
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"It is difficult, if not impossible, to argue that laws written in the 1970s are adequate for today's intelligence challenges."
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"You can not argue with stupid but you can certainly play with it."
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"The Knowledgeable has the intelligent answer but only the intelligent one asks for a knowledgeable question."
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"Education is no substitute for intelligence. That elusive quality is defined only in part by puzzle-solving ability. It is in the creation of new puzzles reflecting what your senses report that you round out the definition."
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"I wasn't privy to all of the intelligence that was coming in about Guatemala, but I did see the traffic that was coming in from Guatemala City, because it was very relevant to me, and of course I exchanged what I had with the chief of station in Guatemala City."
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"So the reason that the Bay of Pigs failed was that the original promise made by Eisenhower was not kept by the subsequent Administration. It allowed hostile air to wipe out the approaching invasion force."
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"I would say this in terms of my career, that my career provided me with everything that I wanted, and I think a man is fortunate if he can say that at the end of his life."
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"My name is E. Howard Hunt. I'm currently retired from more than 22 years in the profession of espionage."
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"We had, after all, no other recourse to protect ourselves, no other document, let's say, than the Monroe Doctrine. So that could be cited as a cause for intervention if and when it might become necessary."
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"No one is entitled to the truth."
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"I had brought up from Chile a contract agent whose cover was that of a newspaper publisher in Santiago, a young, very talented man, named Dave Phillips, who later on carved quite a career for himself in the agency."
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"So you're quite right that when... as the Cold War grew and expanded out of Europe, we ourselves had to take refuge behind the shield of the Monroe Doctrine."
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