"The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media." – William Colby, former CIA Director, cited by Dave McGowan, Derailing Democracy
"There is quite an incredible spread of relationships. You don't need to manipulate Time Magazine, for example, because there are [Central Intelligence] Agency people at the management level." – William B. Bader, former CIA intelligence officer, briefing members of the Senate Intelligence Committee, The CIA and the Media, by Carl Bernstein
"The Agency's relationship with [The New York] Times was by far its most valuable among newspapers, according to CIA officials. It was general Times policy … to provide assistance to the CIA whenever possible." - The CIA and the Media, by Carl Bernstein
"You could get a journalist cheaper than a good call girl, for a couple hundred dollars a month." - CIA operative discussing with Philip Graham, editor Washington Post, on the availability and prices of journalists willing to peddle CIA propaganda and cover stories. "Katherine The Great," by Deborah Davis (New York: Sheridan Square Press, 1991)
"For some time I have been disturbed by the way the CIA has been diverted from its original assignment. It has become an operational and at times a policy-making arm of the government…. I never had any thought that when I set up the CIA that it would be injected into peacetime cloak and dagger operations." – former President Harry Truman, 22 December 1963, one month after the JFK assassination, op-ed section of the Washington Post, early edition