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The literary spy : the ultimate source for quotations on espionage and intelligence / compiled and annotated by Charles E. Lathrop.

New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2004.

xvi, 477 pages ; 25 cm

The Literary Spy provides a unique view of the intelligence world through the words of its own major figures (and those fascinated with them) from ancient times to the present. CIA speechwriter and analyst Charles E. Lathrop has compiled and annotated more than 3,000 quotations from such disparate sources as the Bible, spy novels and movies, Shakespeare?s plays, declassified CIA documents, memoirs, TV talk shows, and speeches from U.S. and foreign leaders and officials.

Espionage -- Quotations, maxims, etc.

History, Modern -- Quotations, maxims, etc.

Quotations.

Lathrop, Charles E.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-430) and indexes.

Academia -- Analysis & analysts -- Assassination -- Bay of Pigs -- budgets -- Collection -- Compartmentalization -- Counterintelligence -- Covert action -- Critics & defenders -- Current intelligence -- Deception, disinformation, & propaganda -- Defectors -- Directors of Central Intelligence -- Domestic activities -- Economic intelligence -- Espionage & spies -- Estimates -- Fact versus fiction -- Failures -- FBI & law enforcement -- Feedback & tasking -- Fighting the Cold War -- Fronts -- Ignoring bad news -- Intelligence, definitions of -- Intelligence, the missions of -- Intercepts and cryptology -- Journalists, businessmen & clergy -- Leadership -- Leaks -- Legislative oversight -- Liaison -- Limits of intelligence -- Military attachés -- Military & naval intelligence -- Nut cases & conspiracies -- Objectivity -- Openness & publicity -- Open sources -- Origins of central intelligence -- Overhead & imagery -- People -- Plausible denial -- Policy role -- Politicization -- Prescriptions -- Presidents & intelligence -- Recruiting -- Redundancy redundancy -- "Rogue elephant" -- Secrecy -- Subcultures in CIA -- Successes -- Terrorism -- Timeliness -- Traitors in their own words -- Treason & betrayal -- United Nations -- Unsavory characters -- U.S. intelligence "community" -- Warning, prediction, & surprise -- Weapons of mass destruction -- Women.

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2003027624

0300103247

9780300103243

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372.12 Literary