"Appreciate the power of rumor, often malicious, no matter how preposterous, within the local populations you are seeking to help."
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"Humanitarian missions are little different from any other public enterprise, diplomacy included, which is susceptible of misinterpretation by the public, hence ultimately of failure.“
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"The Soviet Union did not achieve victory over the West, so was my information inadequate to help them to victory, or did it play no particular role in their failure to achieve victory?"
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"Failure is not fatal victory is not success."
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