ALLEN W. DULLES (then director CIA):
‘You, Mr Chairman, may have seen some of my intelligence reports from time to time.’
MR KHRUSHCHEV:
‘I believe we get the same reports – and probably from the same people.’
MR DULLES:
‘Maybe we should pool our efforts.’
MR KHRUSHCHEV:
‘Yes. We should buy our intelligence data together and save money. We’d have to pay the people only once.’
News Item, September 1959
‘But what good came of it at last?’
Quoth little Peterkin,
‘Why, that I cannot tell,’ said he:–
‘But ’twas a famous victory.’
SOUTHEY, After Blenheim
‘If I am right the Germans will say I was a German and the French will say I was a Jew; if I am wrong the Germans will say I was a Jew and the French will say I was a German.’
ALBERT EINSTEIN
Most of the people who engaged in this unsavoury work had very little interest in the cause which they were paid to promote. They did not take their parts too seriously, and one or the other would occasionally go over to the opposite side, for espionage is an international and artistic profession, in which opinions matter less than the art of perfidy.
DR R. LEWINSOHN,
The Career of Sir Basil Zaharoff