"Ninety percent of intelligence comes from open sources. The other ten percent, the clandestine work, is just the more dramatic. The real intelligence hero is Sherlock Holmes, not James Bond."
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As quoted by Paulson, Terrance M., Intelligence Issues & Development (1 May 2008), Nova Publishers, p. 78
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