...instruments of national policy as embodied by the chilling words of the Doolittle Committee in 1954. It is now clear that we are facing an implacable enemy...avowed objective is world domination by whatever means at whatever cost. There are no rules in such a game. Hitherto acceptable norms of human conduct do...

...wrote in a review of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) activities ordered by President Eisenhower, "There are no rules in such a game. Hitherto acceptable norms of human conduct do not apply. If the United States is to survive, long-standing American concepts of 'fair play' must be reconsidered."14...

...Eisenhower. "It is now clear," Doolittle reported as chairman of the presidential committee on intelligence, "that we are facing an implacable enemy whose avowed...objective is world domination by whatever means and whatever cost. There are no rules in such a game. Hitherto acceptable norms of human conduct do not...

...United States to abandon its traditional sense of fair play in this all-out struggle for the world: It is now clear that we are facing an implacable enemy whose avowed objective is world domination . . . there are no rules in such a game. Hitherto acceptable norms of human conduct do not apply. If...

...series of high-level committee reports that urged ever bolder action in the superpower struggle.17 "It is now clear that we are facing an implacable...domination by whatever means, and at whatever cost," noted the presidential Doolittle Committee in 1955. "We must learn to subvert, sabotage, and destroy...