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Secrecy is a vacuum and nothing fills a vacuum like paranoid speculation. [...] We wanted the bad guys to suspect us, to fear us and maybe think twice before trying to harm any of our citizens. This was the advantage of our image as some kind of omniscient octopus.

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— (In regards to the CIA) Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

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