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As you can tell from the titles of my books, I like to probe secret organizations, secret subjects. And this sometimes gets me into trouble.

I'm sort of fascinated by the whole espionage crime thing.

My road to publishing actually came through a colleague who connected me to my agent, and the faculty at Cornell was very supportive.

And so, I was not a military test pilot, but as soon as NASA expressed an interest in flying scientists and people who were not military test pilots, that was an epiphany that just came like a stroke of lightning.

Breaking a cardinal rule of spy craft, I actually let it be known that I wanted to work for the CIA.

We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage.

If we are going to conduct espionage in the future, we are going to have to make some changes in the relationship between the intelligence community and the public it serves.

As a consequence of these hesitations and of the vague character of such innovations, the Commission on Human Rights itself had doubts from the beginning about its role and its functions in general.

The Glassco Commission was really not interested in good science. It was interested in good accounting.

At Berkeley I had my first encounter with real professional scientists.