Sarah Totten

“As intelligence gatherers, wives rival anything ever dreamed up by the agency or the KGB.”
― Francis Gary Powers, Operation Overflight

“There was a saying in the prison: Pravada best for cigarette paper, L'Humanité for toilet tissue.
Communist propaganda does have its uses.”
― Francis Gary Powers, Operation Overflight

“Die they must in any case, and since 'tis so, why I, the mother who bore them, will give the fatal blow.”
― Euripides

“Concern appeared to be less with what the facts were than with how such information would be accepted. And it takes little insight to realize that when intelligence is shaped to be what its recipients want to hear, it ceases to be intelligence.”
― Francis Gary Powers, Operation Overflight