Tag: David Wise

RIP David Wise, CIA expert who exposed ‘invisible government’

“We felt very strongly that there were two governments in the United States: one in the civics texts and the other in the real world,” Mr. Wise told the New York Times in 1988. “We thought the intelligence agencies were important to our security. But we were troubled about a system based on the consent of the governed when the governed didn’t know to what they have consented.”

Source: David Wise, author and CIA expert who exposed ‘invisible government,’ dies at 88

Scroll to Top