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“I have to tell you, I have some real problems with this whole thing despite how much we need it. I'm concerned that too much power will end up in the hands of too few. It's always in somebody's best interest to promote enemies real or imagined.”
talking about the formation of the CIA as a peacetime Office of Strategic Services
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