Quote of the Day | 0711
There’s huge money in the secret world now, too – money for fabricators who put together brilliant pieces of intelligence. We saw that with the forged documents suggesting Saddam Hussein tried to buy yellowcake uranium in Niger. Somebody was paid a fortune for that nonsense. Huge money is now being paid out to informants, a lot of it for hokum. I hear on the grapevine that the spooks are getting productivity payments. I find that pernicious.
John Le Carré, ”In my day, MI6 – which I called the Circus in the books
– stank of wartime nostalgia”
[x]#8997 fan maandag 11 juli 2011 @ 10:25:03
