We Distorted Our Own Minds: John le Carre

John le Carre, author of The Night Manager, talks about today's spies and his past career in intelligence

Q. If you were the director of the CIA, what priorities would you set for the next decade?

A. What I would require of my intelligence service would be a real liaison with major existing intelligence services on shared targets. That would include terrorism and nuclear weapons, all these loose cannons we've got sloshing around in Ukraine. If some crazed national movement got hold of nuclear weapons, then I think there should be a joint effort among intelligence agencies that should be pooled by the United Nations.

Q. Won't countries be reluctant to share intelligence data with one another through the...

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