"Whenever you run a clandestine operation, you run two
things at the same time: you prepare the team for the hit, and you keep it so
small there's nobody to spread it all around. And across the hall is a big
staff working on what we call special plans. They're preparing the cover story.
The cover story is what they want people to believe and to talk about, and to
argue about." - From a 1992 speech by Col. Fletcher Prouty, former chief
of special operations, Joint Chief of Staff - from the book Deep
Truth: The Lives of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein:
