“The KGB is more than a secret police organization, more than an intelligence and counter-intelligence organization. It is an instrument for subversion, manipulation, and violence, for secret intervention in the affairs of other countries.”
“Confrontation between intelligence organs never ended but with the end of the Cold War, contrary to expectations, actually intensified.”
“When in October 1991 Gorbachev decided to break up the KGB, his intention was to de-fang it. The most radical change was the severing of counterintelligence (Second Chief Directorate) from foreign intelligence (First Chief Directorate). The Second would eventually be renamed the FSB and the First the SVR. On paper, the KGB should have been cut down to size, a shadow of its former self. But it’s not the way things turned out.”
“I was the CIA director. We lied, we cheated, we stole. We had entire training courses. It reminds you of the glory of the American experiment.”
“Pompeo’s ‘confession’ is only a glimpse of the gigantic U.S. intelligence system’s ingloriousness, from the production of unsubstantiated intelligence that gave Washington pretexts to invade others to the engagement of assassinations, abuse of prisoners, wiretapping, and public opinion manipulation, among other things. The shameful and deplorable record, while having long since shattered the credibility of the intelligence community a long time ago, has also laid bare its nature of serving at the pleasure of U.S. decision makers, regardless of truth, facts, and human conscience, as Washington plays power politics and seeks to preserve a hegemonic position in the world.”
“Endless revelations concerning warrantless wiretapping, the use of torture, and extrajudicial killing have done little to enhance the prestige or the moral standing of America’s defense and intelligence establishment.”
