The trouble is, when professional spies go out of their way to make a definitive statement about one of their own, the public tends to believe the opposite: which puts us all back where we started.

I happen to write by hand. I don't even type.

During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity.

America has entered one of its periods of historic madness, but this is the worst I can remember.

Give a man a car of his own and he leaves humility and common sense behind him in the garage.

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

Power expands through the distribution of secrecy.