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Checkout quotes by John le Carre on Intelligence
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‟ I wrote 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold' at the age of 30 under intense, unshared personal stress and in extreme privacy. As an intelligence officer in the guise of a junior diplomat at the British Embassy in Bonn, I was a secret to my colleagues, and much of the time to myself.
- John le Carre
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‟ SIS, the Secret Intelligence Service, also known as MI6, also has no executive powers and operates abroad on CIA lines, but with a tiny percentage of the budget and a tiny percentage of the personnel.
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‟ It's part of a writer's profession, as it's part of a spy's profession, to prey on the community to which he's attached, to take away information - often in secret - and to translate that into intelligence for his masters, whether it's his readership or his spy masters. And I think that both professions are perhaps rather lonely.
- John le Carre
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‟ The Secret Intelligence Service I knew occupied dusky suites of little rooms opposite St James's Park Tube station in London.
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‟ I've had nothing to do with the intelligence world since I left it, in any shade or variety.
- John le Carre