Quotation of the Day
22nd November 2025
The clearance mechanism of CIA rejects all possible candidates of any value. If you are the kind of young American who could serve your country in the CIA, they won’t let you into the CIA. That’s a simple fact. Everything else follows downstream.
Then there is the fact that people who do get into the CIA are like municipal employees with handsome pensions before the city goes bankrupt. These people come in who cannot deliver and do not deliver, and they make demands, and one of the demands is that they refuse to serve under cover.
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In fact, one of the fundamental aspects of the CIA is that their people don’t know languages. I was in Kazakhstan many times. And one time in Astana, I ran into the CIA director of the station and said, “How many of you people speak Kazakh?” “We don’t. There’s no need for it. Everybody here speaks Russian.” That’s what they said.
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At our station in Tajikistan, nobody knows Tajik; our station in Turkmenistan, nobody knows Turkmen; our station in Kazakhstan, nobody knows Kazakh; and in Uzbekistan, nobody knows Uzbek, because “they all speak Russian,” except they don’t, and the CIA guy doesn’t even speak Russian! We have lived with this scandal.
And I blame the State Department, because these Foreign Service officers of the State Department, who do have the qualifications they need for their jobs, they do a cover-up. They cohabit in these missions all over the world with CIA people, and they know they’re clowns.
But somehow, they don’t talk about it. They’re the ones who should find a proper, legitimate way to inform their fellow citizens that the CIA is a fraud, that the so-called human intelligence, all the people they send overseas, all their so-called CIA officers overseas, and their NOCs are frauds. They’re all frauds and I’ve never met one who is not a fraud.
And that is why we can’t ever have nice things.