Randomly skimming the documents, this is my favorite line so far from a document discussing funding and competition for a new recon satellite system [1]

"Mr. Duckett commented that the Governmant had been carful not to pry too deeply into this area because there were a number of "gentleman's agreements" between contractors"

Sounds very pragmatic of them.

[1] https://www.nro.gov/Portals/65/documents/foia/declass/MAJOR%...