The Secret Intelligence Service I knew occupied dusky suites of little rooms opposite St James's Park Tube station in London.
I worked for MI6 in the Sixties during the great witch-hunts when the...
In every war zone that I've been in there has been a reality and then there...
During the Cold War we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there...
The Cold War was over long before it was officially declared dead.
My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its...
But I think the real tension lies in the relationship between what you might...
Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the...
If there is one eternal truth of politics it is that there are always a...
It's part of a writer's profession as it's part of a spy's profession to...
Novelists are not equipped to make a movie in my opinion. They make their...
I wasn't privy to all of the intelligence that was coming in about Guatemala...
Foreign Ministry guys don't become agents. Party officials the Foreign...
We had periodic crises in this country when the technical intelligence didn't...
The resistance of policy-makers to intelligence is not just founded on an...
There are so many things a large intelligence espionage organization can do...
Our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never or had very seldom...
In my professional work with the Agency by the late '70s I had come to...
I found that our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never or had very...
I am not a member of the CIA or any other intelligence agency.