There is one thing no head of a country can know, and that is: how good is his intelligence system? He finds out only by having it fail him. (Robert A. Heinlein)

There is one thing no head of a country can know, and that is: how good is his intelligence system? He finds out only by having it fail him.

Robert A. Heinlein

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