5 Quotes & Sayings By Lynn Blackmar

Teaching and writing for more than thirty years, Blackmar has published more than 100 scholarly articles and 15 books, including The Framing of the Kennedy Assassination: A Psychological Interpretation. He is an Associate Professor of History at California State University, Northridge. He graduated from the University of Alabama with a B.A. degree in American History and an M.A Read more

in American Studies, and from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a Ph.D. in History.

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Langley bred a certain type of person with great intention. The human resources department required nearly as sophisticated of analysts as the foreign intelligence department. Apply the massive computing technology of the CIA to hiring, along with the naive appeal of the exciting, though perhaps not so lucrative life of a spy, and any headhunter would be jealous of the results. Lynn Blackmar
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Being a spy was something like standing on the south shore fending off a hurricane with a $2 poncho and an umbrella. Lynn Blackmar
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Being shaken to death by a Hawaiian tourist look-alike was not how Arena imagined her death. Lynn Blackmar
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People who are different are considered ineffective. People who can’t hide their shortcomings are not considered a threat. A lot of spies rely on being unobtrusive, but we flat out flaunt the fact that we’re different, and those we try to get information from put us on an even lower level than the ones they don’t notice. They don’t believe we’re even capable of being a threat, and they misstep more than they might with someone they simply don’t know. . Lynn Blackmar