Quotes by : Charles McCarry

Richard M. Helms, the first director of Central Intelligence to rise from the ranks, was fond of saying....

(F)iction is...what ought to have been, not what actually was. At least, not exactly.

I've consciously tried not to romanticize anything, especially not intelligence work. I've always said....

I've always been baffled by critics of the CIA, who are horrified that it does illegal things. That is....

No wonder the summer solstice had been such a fun day in northern Europe before Christian missionaries....