The Unending Game: A Former R&AW Chief’s Insights into Espionage QUOTES

1 " What it means for the most of us is that after having missed the Industrial Revolution if India misses the technological and information revolution, we should expect to be confined to dust and heap. "

― , The Unending Game: A Former R&AW Chief’s Insights into Espionage

3 " Since intelligence is a demand-driven activity, like a service industry, it makes sense that while it may not form policy, it nevertheless should be in close touch with policymakers and political leaders to provide policy inputs when required, or to reorient priorities so that the intelligence provided remains relevant. "

― , The Unending Game: A Former R&AW Chief’s Insights into Espionage

5 " A government that has an intelligence system that ensures a surprise does not become a surprise will be successful in securing its people and the nation. "

― , The Unending Game: A Former R&AW Chief’s Insights into Espionage

7 " More information means less ignorance and a greater chance of rational and better decisions and not those based on illusions, hope, preconceived notions or perceptions. The danger from so much data—there is no definition of what is optimum—is that there are chances of overanalysis or falling into a conspiracy theory trap. "

― , The Unending Game: A Former R&AW Chief’s Insights into Espionage

9 " A government that has intelligence system that ensures a surprise does not become a surprise will be successful in securing its people and the nation. "

― , The Unending Game: A Former R&AW Chief’s Insights into Espionage

11 " Intelligence is a team effort: within the organization, internally with other agencies and ministries, and externally with other countries’ organizations. "

― , The Unending Game: A Former R&AW Chief’s Insights into Espionage

13 " In the twenty-first century, unfortunately, quite often policymakers and politicians judge intelligence agencies in comparison with what has appeared in the media. "

― , The Unending Game: A Former R&AW Chief’s Insights into Espionage

15 " Oleg Kalugin, the KGB’s rising star in the First Directorate, claims in his book that a minister in Indira Gandhi’s cabinet offered to provide information to the KGB for $50,000. The KGB, however, felt there was no need to spend this money as they had enough intelligence from multiple well-placed sources. That minister, according to Kalugin, later became India’s prime minister.2 "

― , The Unending Game: A Former R&AW Chief’s Insights into Espionage

17 " hegemony "

― , The Unending Game: A Former R&AW Chief’s Insights into Espionage