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Intelligence Quotes by Aldrich Ames
- Foreign Ministry guys don't become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not to volunteer to Western intelligence agencies.
- I found that 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…
- Our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet Union.
- 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…
- 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…
- We had periodic crises in this country when the technical intelligence didn't support the policy. We had the bomber gap, the missile gap.
More Intelligence Quotes
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. — Aristotle
- The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. — Aristotle
- Wit is educated insolence. — Aristotle
- To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
- If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. — Isaac Asimov
- Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior. — Julian Assange
- People are smarter than you might think. — John Astin