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It takes 5 to 7 years to turn a novice into a case officer capable of working in the capitals of the world.

The ability to represent failure as success would become an Agency tradition.

Their attempts to make sense of the world had carried heat but little light.

To the CIA, everyone's an outsider.

Truman said he only needed a daily intelligence digest to keep from having to read a two-foot stack of cables every morning.