Harry Truman, former president:
“I never had any thought that when I set up the CIA that it would be injected into peacetime cloak and dagger operations.....There is something about the way the CIA has been functioning that is casting a shadow over our historic position, and I feel that we need to correct it.”
- published in Washington Post of 22 Dec 1963, exactly one month after JFK’s murder. Excerpted in the Church Committee testimony of Clark Clifford.
http://www.maryferrell.org/pages/JFK_Assassination_Quotes_by_Government_Officials.html
“I never had any thought that when I set up the CIA that it would be injected into peacetime cloak and dagger operations ...”
This is a bit of historical revisionism by Truman. The irony of this statement is that on January 24, 1946 Truman invited Adm. Souers into the Oval Office, pulled out of a closet a black cloak and wooden dagger and presented them to Adm. Souers as mock symbols of the new CIA.