John Forsythe Quotes
It was given for all purposes to which a secret service fund should or could be applied to the public benefit—for spies, if the gentleman pleases.
Then a Senator and defending the administration's use of an unvouchered Secret Service fund:
John Forsythe, 1780-1841, U.S. Senator (Democrat, GA), Governor of Georgia, U. S. Secretary of State, Senate debate, 1831
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Casey continuously violated the law and lied to the President and Congress.
Reinhard Gehlen was a vicious, fanatical Nazi intelligence officer who offered his files, men and services to Allen Dulles in Germany at the end of World War II. Dulles accepted the offer despite much criticism:
In her younger days Steinham worked with the CIA. Originally the Office of Strategic Service, the precursor to the CIA, was an amalgam of some of the nation’s most educated and dedicated people who tended to be very idealistic in saving the world from fascists like Nazi Germany and Japan. The were extremely nonpolitical and were not involved in the liberal conservative battles that the agency got itself into as the Red Scare and the fear of Communism affected much of the society including the CIA.
The American Embassy in Berlin had wiretapped the telephone and telegraph wires of the German Foreign Ministry. The man who did that was hired by Secretary of State Lansing as the first employee of the new unit.
Intelligence agents tend to prefer covert activities to the less dramatic, non-exciting, activity of gathering and analyzing intelligence. Most national intelligence services tend to enlarge their portfolio to include covert activities regardless of what the national leaders intended. Because of the secrecy, they can often get away with this.
John Forsythe was an American stage, film/television actor, producer, narrator, drama teacher and philanthropist whose career spanned six decades. He also appeared as a guest on several talk and variety shows and as a panelist on numerous game shows.
