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Always use the chain of command to issue orders, but if you use the chain of command for information, you’re dead.

Hyman Rickover (1900-1986) Polish-American naval engineer, admiral [b. Chaim Gdala Rykower]
(Attributed)

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Rickover, Hyman - (Attributed) | WIST Quotations

Always use the chain of command to issue orders, but if you use the chain of command for information, you're dead. Recalled by James Woolsey, at the time CIA Director (1993-1995), as something said to him by Rickover; in "You've Got To Talk To The Smokers," Newsweek (1994-10-09). Though this…

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