"In a very real and terrifying sense, our Government is the CIA and the
Pentagon, with Congress reduced to a debating society. Of course, you can't
spot this trend to fascism by casually looking around. You can't look for
such familiar signs as the swastika, because they won't be there. We won't
build Dachaus and Auschwitzes; the clever manipulation of the mass media is
creating a concentration camp of the mind that promises to be far more
effective in keeping the populace in line. We're not going to wake up one
morning and suddenly find ourselves in gray uniforms goose-stepping off to
work. But this isn't the test. The test is: What happens to the individual
who dissents? In Nazi Germany, he was physically destroyed; here, the
process is more subtle, but the end results can be the same.

I've learned enough about the machinations of the CIA in the past year to
know that this is no longer the dreamworld America I once believed in. The
imperatives of the population explosion, which almost inevitably will lessen
our belief in the sanctity of the individual human life, combined with the
awesome power of the CIA and the defense establishment, seem destined to
seal the fate of the America I knew as a child and bring us into a new
Orwellian world where the citizen exists for the state and where raw power
justifies any and every immoral act. I've always had a kind of knee-jerk
trust in my Government's basic integrity, whatever political blunders it may
make. But I've come to realize that in Washington, deceiving and
manipulating the public are viewed by some as the natural prerogatives of
office. Huey Long once said, 'Fascism will come to America in the name of
anti-fascism.' I'm afraid, based on my own experience, that fascism will
come to America in the name of national security."

--Jim Garrison's Interview with Playboy Magazine, October 1967