"To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do."
-Victor Hugo
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"Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.“
-Victor Hugo
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"A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them."
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"The three great problems of this century the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness."
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"I wasn't privy to all of the intelligence that was coming in about Guatemala, but I did see the traffic that was coming in from Guatemala City, because it was very relevant to me, and of course I exchanged what I had with the chief of station in Guatemala City."
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"Foreign Ministry guys don't become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not to volunteer to Western intelligence agencies."
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"We had periodic crises in this country when the technical intelligence didn't support the policy. We had the bomber gap, the missile gap."
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"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."
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"There are so many things a large intelligence espionage organization can do to justify its existence, that people can get promotions for, because it could result in results."
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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."
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