“ Intelligence services exist to do things that are illegal abroad. They exist to tell lies. ”
Misdirection. False signals. Spreading confusion. This is the Tao of deception.
~ David Ignatius
If you walk into the front hallway of the CIA, you will see, on your left, a statue of William 'Wild Bill' Donovan. Bill Donovan was the person who created the OSS, the Office of Strategic Services, which was America's spy agency during World War II and then kind of morphed into what's now the CIA.
The ISI is above all a paramilitary organization. It doesn't do all that much collection of intelligence. It's not a very good spy agency, but it's good at running covert action.
Journalists couldn't do their jobs overseas without taking risks, and the same is true for diplomats and intelligence officers.
