"I suppose that if we in intelligence were one day given three wishes, they would be to know everything, to be believed when we spoke, and in such a way to exercise an influence to the good in the matter of policy."

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Source : Sherman Kent, Center for the Study of Intelligence (U.S.). History Staff (1994). “Sherman Kent and the Board of National Estimates: collected essays”

Sherman Kent

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