Things like predicting the single biggest geopolitical event of the second half of the 20th century you mean? The "if only you knew what we knew" excuse has, as my dad would have said, "a beard you can wind three times around the table".
For one behind-the-scenes look, read "Mike Frost"'s "Spyworld", about Canada's CSE. I never noticed it when I read it but a Canadian friend who'd read it pointed out that in the author's entire career at the CSE they had only one single success, which was intercepting the conversation of a US senator during trade talks with the US which got them a better trade deal.
A bigger argument though is that if they've had all these amazing successes why have they never told anyone? Why are all, or at least a lot, of their failures over the decades public but none of their successes?
For one behind-the-scenes look, read "Mike Frost"'s "Spyworld", about Canada's CSE. I never noticed it when I read it but a Canadian friend who'd read it pointed out that in the author's entire career at the CSE they had only one single success, which was intercepting the conversation of a US senator during trade talks with the US which got them a better trade deal.
A bigger argument though is that if they've had all these amazing successes why have they never told anyone? Why are all, or at least a lot, of their failures over the decades public but none of their successes?