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It's easy to forget what intelligence consists of: luck and speculation. Here and there a windfall, here and there a scoop.

Source: Leclerc, in The Looking-Glass War, pt. 2, ch. 9, 1965.
-- John LeCarre, (Oct 19 1931-____), English novelist; He (aka David John Moore Cornwell) made George Smiley, antithesis of James Bond, famous in Call from the Dead, 1962; also wrote Little Drummer Girl, 1983 and Perfect Spy, 1986.

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