"Foreign Ministry guys don’t become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not to volunteer to Western intelligence agencies."
― Aldrich Ames
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― Aldrich Ames
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- "Our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet Union."
- "The resistance of policy-makers to intelligence is not just founded on an ideological presupposition. They distrust intelligence sources and intelligence officials because they don’t understand what the real problems are."
- "In my professional work with the Agency, by the late ’70s, I had come to question the value of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms of the intelligence agency’s impact on American policy."
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- "Art owes its origin to Nature herself… this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which has not only made us superior to the other animals, but like God Himself, if I may venture to say it."― Giorgio Vasari
- "I feel like you don’t know if someone’s equipped for a romantic relationship until they’re out of their twenties."― Lena Dunham
- "We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence."― Remy de Gourmont