Espionage Necessitates Breaking the Law: General Magruder (Deputy Director the OSS)

"Clandestine intelligence operations involve a constant breaking of all the rules. To put it baldly, such operations are necessarily extra-legal and sometimes illegal."

— Brig. Gen. John Magruder, qtd. in Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA (Knopf Doubleday, 2008), p. 13

Terry Melanson

Webmaster/editor of Conspiracy Archive; author of Perfectibilists: the 18th Century Bavarian Order of the Illuminati.

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