Comment by deepnet

"Maybe the real state secret is that spies aren't very good at their jobs and don't know much about the world."

Adam Curtis hilariously documents the 20th centuries near 100% failure rate of the British Secret Services (except when they manufactured a plot).

And how they were created to hunt fictional spies dreamed up by paranoid tabloid readers obsessed with novels about German spies.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/entries/3662a707-0af9-...