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• CIA still has “responsibility to the American people, and to history, to account for our actions and the quality of our work.”
• [As our] spies we must recruit men who are intelligent but appear stupid; who seem to be dull but are strong in heart; men who are agile, vigorous, hardy and brave; well versed in lowly matters and able to endure hunger, cold, filth, and humiliation. —Sun Tzu
• Intelligence today is not merely a profession, but like most professions it has taken on the aspects of a discipline: It has a recognized methodology; it has developed a vocabulary; it has developed a body of theory and doctrine; it has elaborate and refined techniques. It now has a large professional following. What it lacks is a literature. From ...
• Chalk up another lesson that later served me well: Keep your options open; always have a fallback when you’re working in hostile territory.
• Out on the crowded dance floor, my anxiety dissolved and I began to enjoy the power of our deception. This was fun.