If defectors stayed at home the intelligence world would be much better off as a result.

"We've got to spend time in the shadows of the intelligence world."

The answer, some in the intelligence world say, is that the evidence did not change - but the political environment around it did.

He and others give her sort of a leg up in the intelligence world.

"There was a collective failure here," one senior person in the intelligence world said.

He had enough experience to know how people in the intelligence world lie to you.

"People throughout the intelligence world are on the defensive; they want to be very careful," he said.

The eyes of the intelligence world are watching us.

I know the intelligence world places little value on women operatives.

My mother had gotten into the spy business years before, and made her mail in the intelligence world.