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Deciding whether to trust or credit a person is always an uncertain task.
Deciding whether to trust or credit a person is always an uncertain task.
Espionage, for the most part, involves finding a person who knows something or has something that you can induce them read more
Espionage, for the most part, involves finding a person who knows something or has something that you can induce them secretly to give to you. That almost always involves a betrayal of trust.
To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to read more
To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the sense in drinking.
Wine is a peep-hole on a man.
Wine is a peep-hole on a man.
An espionage organization is a collector: it collects raw information. That gets processed by a machinery that is supposed to read more
An espionage organization is a collector: it collects raw information. That gets processed by a machinery that is supposed to resolve its reliability, and to present a finished product.
Because interrogations are intended to coerce confessions, interrogators feel themselves justified in using their coercive means. Consistency regarding the technique read more
Because interrogations are intended to coerce confessions, interrogators feel themselves justified in using their coercive means. Consistency regarding the technique is not important; inducing anxiety and fear is the point.
By the late '70s I had come to question the point of a great deal of what we were doing, read more
By the late '70s I had come to question the point of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms of the CIA's overall charter.
If France thinks that by propping up Deby against the will of an entire people, it will be able to read more
If France thinks that by propping up Deby against the will of an entire people, it will be able to safeguard its interests (in Chad), it's making a mistake.
If Sudan supports us as people say, I do not see what's bad about that.
If Sudan supports us as people say, I do not see what's bad about that.
These elections will fail by themselves. Political parties inside the country won't attend this farce. Chad's citizens, with the current read more
These elections will fail by themselves. Political parties inside the country won't attend this farce. Chad's citizens, with the current loaded environment, won't be going out to vote, even just to say no to Deby.
