"Persona:  That which in reality you are not, but which yourself as well as others think you are ... in dreams it could appear as a scarecrow, a tramp or an empty field."
-- Carl Jung

"[Scarecrow] I haven't got a brain ... only straw."
-- The Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum (The French Bomb)

"When I saw him [Hitler] with my own eyes, he suggested a psychic scarecrow (with a broomstick for an outstretched arm) rather than a human being.”
-- Carl Jung

"Stories such as Braden's -- and they are legion -- helped to make Angleton a sinister and mysterious figure inside the CIA, and in the tight social circles in Washington in which he moved. His nicknames reflected this. In the CIA, his agency pseudonym -- used in cable traffic -- was Hugh Ashmead. But his colleagues referred  to him variously as "the Gray Ghost," "the Black Knight," "the Orchid Man," "the Fisherman," "Jesus," "Slim Jim," or less flatteringly, "Skinny Jim," or "Scarecrow."  In the dull bureaucracy of  Washington, and even in the secret intelligence bureaucracy, few officials had such colorful sobriquets."
-- Molehunt, by David Wise

Angleton was a poet, or at least he had been deeply involved in  poetry at Yale, an admirer of T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound, and this  aesthetic side, combined with the enormous secret power he wielded,  made him a unique figure in the CIA and added to the ominous shadow he cast. For it was precisely this blend of poet and spy, of art and espionage -- a craft with a suggestion of violence always present just below the surface -- that added to the hint of menace in Angleton's persona. As a literary intellectual, he must have appreciated the delicious dramatic irony that he embodied. [7] [7.  Pound, the controversial poet and Fascist sympathizer, was, like Angleton, a native of Idaho. He moved to Italy in 1924, and during World War II he broadcast propaganda, directed at Allied troops, for the Mussolini government. Indicted for treason and brought back to the United States for trial, he was judged mentally incompetent and confined to St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington for twelve years. He returned to Italy after his release and died there in 1972 at the age of eighty-seven.]
 -- Molehunt, by David Wise

"[Rachel] Isn't it convenient for a 52-year-old man who has no history of mental illness to suddenly have a psychotic breakdown just when he's about to be indicted?  ... He's drugged?

[Crane] Psychopharmacology is my primary field. 

-- Batman Begins, directed by Christopher Nolan

"It always starts with nonsense," Simon is telling Joe in another time-track, between Los Angeles and San Francisco, in 1969. "Weishaupt discovered the Law of Fives while he was stoned and looking at one of those shoggoth pictures you saw in Arkham. He imagined the shoggoth was a rabbit and said, 'du hexen Hase,' which has been preserved as an in-joke by Illuminati agents in Hollywood. It runs through the Bugs Bunny cartoons: 'You wascal wabbit!' But out of that schizzy mixture of hallucination and logomania, Weishaupt saw both the mystic meaning of the Five and its pragmatic application as a principal of international espionage, using permutations and combinations that I'll explain when we have a pencil and paper."
-- The Illuminatus! Trilogy, by Robert Shea and Robert Anton  Wilson

"Four months after the OSS closed up shop, Truman, on January 22, 1946, issued an executive order setting up a National Intelligence Authority and, under it, a Central Intelligence Group, which became the forerunner of the CIA. The Authority's members were Secretary of State James F. Byrnes, Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson, Secretary of the Navy James V. Forrestal and Admiral Leahy. The Central Intelligence Group was the Authority's operating arm. To head it, Truman selected Rear Admiral Sidney W. Souers, the deputy chief of Navy Intelligence. Souers had been a businessman in St. Louis before the war; the nation's first Director of Central Intelligence once headed the Piggly Wiggly Stores in Memphis.
-- The Invisible Government, by David Wise and Thomas B. Ross

"The [FBI] agents appeared convinced that the CIA harbored homosexuals. They kept coming back to that subject. "The FBI asked about why there were so many 'queers' in the CIA's German stations in the early 1950s."
-- Molehunt, by David Wise

"Emerald City is the Gulf Coast's premier gay/high-energy dance bar."

"Around 1975, I was in a phone booth in Maryland somewhere, when I saw a poster on a telephone pole about who killed JFK, and it had a picture of the three tramps. I saw that picture and I fucking -- like a cartoon character, my jaw dropped, my eyes popped out of my head, and smoke came out of my ears. It looks like my dad. There's nobody that has all those same facial features. People say it's not him. He's said it's not him. But I'm his son, and I've got a gut feeling."
-- The Last Confessions of E. Howard Hunt, by Erik Hedegaard