Re: self-serving bureaucracy

Graham Toal wrote:

There was quite an interesting quotation in one of the British papers recently from Ames, the CIA spy who was caught - he said that the intelligence infrastructure in the US was a self-serving bureaucracy.

This is a truth not limited to the US. The English spy analyst Phillip Knightley has dwelled a lot on this subject in his books, especially in 'The Second Oldest Profession' (from the early-mid 80's) which, in my opinion, gives an excellent historical background to the rise of government intelligence agencies as the means of livelihood for hordes of slightly odd academic personalities that otherwise might have had a hard time finding employment. Mats B.