Author: Carleton Coon

Cited by

• John Case (1)
  • IN: The Syndrome (2001) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: (S)ome other power, some third class of individuals aside from the leaders and the scholars must exist, and this third class must have the task of thwarting mistakes, and nipping the causes of potential disturbances in the bud. There must be a body of men whose task it is to throw out the rotten apples as soon as the first spots of decay appear ... A body of this nature must exist undercover. It must either be a power unto itself, or be given the broadest discretionary powers by the highest human authorities ...
    FROM: From "The Invisible Empire," an after-Action report of Carleton Coon to OSS Chief William Donovan, quoted in The Last Hero by Anthony Cave Brown, (1945), Book, US