D.K.R. Crosswell > Quotes

“Before and during the war, the coldly professional British intelligence community made the first American attempts at spying and counterespionage appear clumsy and inept.”
― D.K.R. Crosswell, Beetle: The Life of General Walter Bedell Smith

“As he told Marshall, “things went so smoothly that I was a little worried, and remembered Stalin’s proverb, ‘an amiable bear is more dangerous than a hostile one.”
― D.K.R. Crosswell, Beetle: The Life of General Walter Bedell Smith

“Smith’s primary value lay in compensating for Eisenhower’s deficiencies.”
― D.K.R. Crosswell, Beetle: The Life of General Walter Bedell Smith