Switzerland - Spying is a thankless job. Success remains secret.
Failure produces public humiliation.
Every intelligence organization faces this cruel fact. For the past decade, US intelligence agencies have had an unbroken string of failures, and painfully few successes. Worse, CIA was gravely penetrated by the Soviet KGB and its Russian successor service, the greatest security failure of our era. Attempts by CIA to overthrow Saddam Hussein ended in humiliating fiasco. Now comes the latest disaster, CIA's shocking failure to sound alarms over India's nuclear program.