History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she has one secret that I will reveal to you tonight in the greatest confidence. Sometimes there are no winners at all. And sometimes nobody needs to lose.

For decades to come the spy world will continue to be the collective couch where the subconscious of each nation is confessed.

But there is a big difference in working for the West and working for a totalitarian state.

In every operation there is an above the line and a below the line. Above the line is what you do by the book. Below the line is how you do the job.

Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all-night drive, we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen.

What else has a journalist to do these days, after all, but report life's miseries?

Multi-billion-dollar multinational corporations view the exploitation of the world's sick and dying as a sacred duty to their shareholders.