No Success Like Failure

No Success like FailureNow let us praise an infamous man, the pale-eyed William Egan Colby, our number-one spy.Colby, more than any other celebrated public official, even Richard Nixon, has perfected the alchemy of turning program failures into personal successes.Every major spy operation that he is known to have been part of has been a disaster. Especially in South Vietnam. And yet recently he was made director of the Central Intelligence Agency.It was during the 1959--1962 period, when Colby w...