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English term or phrase:
“All honourable guys had started in Intelligence Service”
English answer:
All decent people got their start in intelligence.
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Stephanie Ezrol
Feb 13, 2010 21:14
14 yrs ago
English term
“All honourable guys had started in Intelligence Service”
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It was said by Henry Kissenger. Please, anyone can help me to check, if this quote is correct? I do not know - is it a part of the sentence, is it a whole sentence, or (it's possible) one-two words are different? I have it in a Russian translation, but no way to tell, how accurate Russian translation is.
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3 +1 | All decent people got their start in intelligence. | Stephanie Ezrol |
2 +1 | "We are all the President’s men" | Oliver Lawrence |
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A very likely particular context ... | Aribas (X) |
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All decent people got their start in intelligence.
As far as I can tell the book was never printed in English. It also appears that this is Putin reporting on a private conversation he had with Henry Kissinger.
Kissinger did get his start in intelligence. But the reference is generic, by which I mean it refers to any nation's intelligence service.
As Aribas said in his reference comment, I don't thnk you are going to get any closer to the original English.
Here's a reference in English which gives you the page number in the Russian book, "In the first person: Conversations with Vladimir Putin."
"His one defensive-sounding statement about his KGB career seems to be a quote from his conversation with Kissinger: "All decent people got their start in intelligence. I did, too" (p. 81)."
http://www.guardian-psj.ru/reviews-9
Kissinger did get his start in intelligence. But the reference is generic, by which I mean it refers to any nation's intelligence service.
As Aribas said in his reference comment, I don't thnk you are going to get any closer to the original English.
Here's a reference in English which gives you the page number in the Russian book, "In the first person: Conversations with Vladimir Putin."
"His one defensive-sounding statement about his KGB career seems to be a quote from his conversation with Kissinger: "All decent people got their start in intelligence. I did, too" (p. 81)."
http://www.guardian-psj.ru/reviews-9
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"We are all the President’s men"
this is the only Kissenger quote that I have found which seems anything like it. HTH.
Note from asker:
Thank you! I started to think, it would not be found. |
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Reference:
A very likely particular context ...
... is provided in the link. Allegedly, Kissinger tossed this sentence to Putin quite an era ago.
(Unless a Prozian manages to locate Kissinger's original wording, one can only but try to locate the interpreter and test his or her memory.)
(Unless a Prozian manages to locate Kissinger's original wording, one can only but try to locate the interpreter and test his or her memory.)
Reference:
http://www.tol.org/client/article/8385-russia-all-decent-people-start-out-in-intelligence.html?print
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