Clive James
Writer
"The British secret service was staffed at one point almost entirely by alcoholic homosexuals working for the KGB"
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L. Ron Hubbard
Author
"Now it's of peculiar interest to an Arab country that there is a company and a certain set of bankers who also finance the World Federation of Mental Health. ...and we see that although the KGB and so forth seems to be associated with the World Federation of Mental Health, their other organization in action seems to go back to Jewish Bankers."
Vladimir Arnold
Mathematician
"All mathematics is divided into three parts: cryptography (paid for by CIA, KGB and the like), hydrodynamics (supported by manufacturers of atomic submarines) and celestial mechanics (financed by military and other institutions dealing with missiles, such as NASA)."
George Blake
Spy
"I come from rather an international, or in other words, a cosmopolitan background."
George Blake
Spy
"Made me feel ashamed of belonging to these overpowering, technical superior countries fighting against what seemed to me quite defenseless people."
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"I know not every mom is a secret KGB spy, but every mom has this whole other life. Every dad and every person has this whole other life."
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"It has not been possible to build that society. It set very high standards, because not only would life in the Soviet Union or in any other country which adopted that system, have to be just as good as in the Capitalist world, it would have to be better. So that other peoples, other nations would want to join it, and obviously we have failed in that."
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"As the CIA and KGB, like God and Satan, fight Miltonic battles across five continents."
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"As soon as I finished the Russian course, I was sent to Korea with the task of trying to establish an agent network, a network in the so called maritime provinces."
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