Intrepid's Last Case Quotes

“In September 1945, he had recommended to his British masters that Professor May be kept from returning to London, not for the plausible and practical reasons he had then stated, but because he realized May would lead British bloodhounds to the London end of the atom-spy networks. His policy would have prevailed if Stephenson had not intervened. Otherwise, Maclean was getting away, literally, with murder.”
― William Stevenson, Intrepid's Last Case

“Holding the reins were men like Mackenzie King, whose calculated inaction had almost silenced Gouzenko forever.”
― William Stevenson, Intrepid's Last Case

“William Hood, a former CIA executive, who wrote: Like war, spying is a dirty business. Shed of its alleged glory, a soldier’s job is to kill. Peel away the claptrap of espionage and the spy’s job is to betray trust. The only justification a soldier or a spy can have is the moral worth of the cause. . . . When an ordinary man puts his life at stake for a political cause, and has an impact on history, the story is worth telling. . .”
― William Stevenson, Intrepid's Last Case