Quickly, remind me - which is the Graham Greene novel that is really about how the experienced European imperialists look down upon the young and dumb US imperialists for doing it all wrong
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Le Carre has flirted with the leftist idea that intelligence services largely serve as sinecure factories for the ruling elite. Think it was in the paperback forward for Honorable Schoolboy, maybe?
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It was surprising and gratifying to read.
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This suspicion was pretty widely shared in CIA, too. Why I thought of revisiting the Greene treatment
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There's a letter Kim Philby wrote to a biographer of Allen Dulles which I think is the Platonic ideal of this attitude: he'd known Dulles in Washington, and was quite affectionate and respectful about him, but concluded that he was ultimately too lazy to be a good CIA director.
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