Alan Furst Quotes
For something that's supposed to be secret, there is a lot of intelligence history. Every time I read one book, two more are published.
Reinhard Gehlen was a vicious, fanatical Nazi intelligence officer who offered his files, men and services to Allen Dulles in Germany at the end of World War II. Dulles accepted the offer despite much criticism:
He was referring to the testimony given before the Senate of James R. Clapper, U. S. Director of National Intelligence. He denied that the NSA was collecting data on millions of American communications. Then Edward Snowden revealed that the NSA was capturing data on ALL U. S. phone calls and e-mails. See {634917} for details on the false testimony.
Alan Furst (/fɜːrst/; born 1941) is an American author of historical spy novels. Furst has been called "an heir to the tradition of Eric Ambler and Graham Greene," whom he cites along with Joseph Roth and Arthur Koestler as important influences. Most of his novels since 1988 have been set just prior to or during the Second World War and he is noted for his successful evocations of Eastern European peoples and places during the period from 1933 to 1944.
