Excerpts from Bancroft, Mary. “Autobiography
of a Spy” (William Morrow & Co., 1983)
“Towards the end of the summer of 1930 I went up to
spend a few days with Ruth Paine at her family’s summer home on Naushon Island
off the coast of Massachusetts.” – p. 55
“…In the summer of 1933…I…went abroad with Ruth
Paine…” (and met Jean Rufenacht) – p. 59
On homosexuals – “A colleague of my generation had
told me how essential it was for us to tap this homosexual underground by
having, as he put it, ‘Washington send us a guy with a pretty behind,’”
– p.
132-133
On useful – “Useful was a word that was constantly
on (Allen Dulles’) his lips. He judged everyone and everything by the yardstick
of its usefulness in the war effort…” – p. 134
The Mosaic - “It
may seem to those nourished on the exploits of James Bond, the spy novels of
Jean Le Carre and Graham Greene, to say nothing of the factual postwar memoirs
of feats of derring-do, that the journalist activities….have little to do with
intelligence work. But intelligence is a mosaic. General material about
background and people’s interrelationships can be both illuminating and
important. Quite often missing pieces of the mosaic emerge that make a
previously incomprehensible picture unexpectedly clear.” – p. 150
“Remember that facts are not the truth. They only indicate
where the truth may lie!” – C. W. Barron - p. 292
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