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We had periodic crises in this country when the technical intellig

We had periodic crises in this country when the technical intelligence didnt support the policy. We had the bomber gap, the missile gap. – Aldrich Ames

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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 dont understand what the real problems are. – Aldrich Ames

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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. – Aldrich Ames

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Trust
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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 agencys impact on American policy. – Aldrich Ames

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Some people take more care to hide their wisdom than their folly. – Jonathan Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects, 1711

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The ability to take pleasure in ones life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence. So intelligence is a hard thing to evaluate and it manifests itself in so many different ways. I do think the ability to know how to live a life and not be miserable is a sign of that. – Todd Solondz

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How can faceless bureaucrats in an intelligence agency deny brave soldiers a chance to tell the truth? – Curt Weldon

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Mad, adj.: Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence. – Ambrose Bierce

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