"Who are these people? They are the group that is popularly called the Enterprise. They are in and outside the CIA. They are mostly right wing Republicans, but you will find a mix of Democrats, mercenaries, ex officio Mafia and opportunists within the group. They are CEOs, they are bankers, they are presidents, they own airlines, they own national television networks. They own six of the seven video documentary companies of Washington, DC and they do not give a a d--mn about eh law or the Constitution or the Congress or the Oversight committees except as something to be subverted and manipulated and lied to.
They abhor sunlight and love darkness. They deal in innuendo and character assassination; and planted stories, the incomplete thought sentence. They burn and shred files if caught, they commit perjury, and when caught they have guaranteed sinecures with large US corporations.
If you let them, they will take over not only the CIA but the entire government and world, cutting off dissent, free speech, a free media, and they will cut a deal with anyone, from the Mafia to Saddam Hussein, if ti means more power and money. They stole $600 billion from the S & L's and then diverted our attention to the Iraqi's. They are ripping off America at a rate never before seen in history. They flooded our country with drugs from Central America at a rate never before seen in history. They flooded our country with drugs from Central America during the 1980s, cut deals with Haro in Mexico, Noriega in Panama, and the Medillin and Cali cartels, and Castro, and recently the Red Mafia KGB.
They ruin their detractors and they fear the truth. If they can, they will blackmail you. Sex, drugs, deals, whatever it takes."
- Former CIA and Iran-Contra whistleblower Bruce Hemmings; circa 1990.