Secret Intelligence Quotes

• Despite the creations of new sections, secret intelligence activity remained mistrusted and neglected in military circles, although there were a few enthusiasts like Baden-Powell, who went on foreign trips disguised as a butterfly collector and regarded spying as sport.

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  Clive Ponting

  Sports   Military   Butterfly  

  Clive Ponting (1990). “Secrecy in Britain”

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• We did not lack for religious leaders to urge us into "godly" war [...]. All of this was part of a well-financed propaganda campaign on the part of British agents. As usual, the government of the United States was being "run" by the British Secret Intelligence Service.

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  Eustace Mullins

  Running   Religious   War  

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• Regarding the air raid over Los Angeles it was learned by Army G2 that Rear Admiral Anderson...recovered an unidentified airplane off the coast of California...with no bearing on conventional explanation. This Headquarters has come to the determination that the mystery airplanes are in fact not earthly and, according to secret intelligence sources, they are in all probability of interplanetary origin.

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  George C. Marshall

  Determination   Airplane   Army  

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• The Secret Intelligence Service I knew occupied dusky suites of little rooms opposite St James's Park Tube station in London.

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  John le Carre

  Opposites   Intelligence Services   Secret  

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• They say military have the so-called 'secret intelligence' - this amount of intelligence must be very secret, since I've never seen any intelligent military person, nor I have seen any sense in the bloody stupid wars.

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  Ozzy Osbourne

  Stupid   Military   War  

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• The secret of good teaching is to regard the child's intelligence as a fertile field in which seeds may be sown, to grow under the heat of flaming imagination.

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  Maria Montessori

  Children   Teaching   Imagination  

  Maria Montessori (2015). “To Educate the Human Potential”, p.10, Ravenio Books

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