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Secrecy can spring from the best motives but as it grows it begins to exist only for itself, only for its own sake, only to cover its own abuses.

Christopher Dodd

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Christopher Dodd
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: May 27
Lawyer
Lobbyist
Politician
Screenwriter
Cook County
Illinois
Christopher Dodd
Christopher John Dodd
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