“An espionage organization is a collector: it collects raw information. That gets processed by a machinery that is supposed to resolve its reliability, and to present a finished product.”

Aldrich Ames
Tags: Collector | Collects | Espionage | Finished | Gets | Information | Machinery | Organization | Present | Processed | Product | Raw | Reliability | Resolve | Supposed
58% of people like this quote
Author details
Related authors
Other Aldrich Ames Quotes
The national security state has many unfair and cruel weapons in its arsenal, but that of junk science is one which can be fought and perhaps defeated.
Aldrich Ames 
79% of people like this quote
The human spy, in terms of the American espionage effort, had never been terribly pertinent.
Aldrich Ames 
64% of people like this quote
