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. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
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. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet Union. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
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. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
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. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
We had periodic crises in this country when the technical intelligence didn't support the policy. We had the bomber gap, the missile gap. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Foreign Ministry guys don't become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not to volunteer to Western intelligence agencies. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
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. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
The danger of having the military take over intelligence is that the military has a very different perspective on the world. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Teaching man his relatively small sphere in the creation, it also encourages him by its lessons of the unity of Nature and shows him that his power of comprehension allies him with the great intelligence over-reaching all. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
The Bush administration also was not straightforward about the intelligence it had, releasing tenuous information that fit its goal of attacking Iraq. I feel deceived. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>