It is the responsibility of the American people and their representatives in Congress to assure that covert actions by intelligence agencies are of the kinds and in the geographic areas that are consistent with the will and values of the American people.

It is too easy to avoid that responsibility and to allow intelligence agencies’ covert actions to go unchallenged and not understood and remain at the direction of the executive branch. The result, as seen in THE MAN NOBODY KNEW, is a weakening both of the American democracy and of its ability to gain intelligence and perform necessary covert action.