Quotes About Espionage

Arab-speaking Jews, like Moshe Dayan, had been sent, disguised as Arabs, on dangerous missions to help liberate Vichy-held Syria and Lebanon, and to Iraq to help quell the pro-Nazi uprising.

You couldn't leave words lying around where our enemies might find them.

En 1903, el respetable funcionario Erskine Childers escribió su única novela, una historia apasionante de espionaje y aventuras, en la que advertía a sus conciudadanos sobre los peligros de una invasión alemana. El enigma de las arenas fue un éxito inmediato, y aún se reedita.

We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage.

I wanted to be a secret agent and an astronaut, preferably at the same time.

It was said that Gilan could approach to within a few meters of a wide-awake sentry, steal his belt and shoes and leave the man wondering why his pants were falling down and his feet were cold. Horace knew it was an exaggeration—but not by much.

For company he had a grease-stained paperback copy of Ian Fleming's Thunderball. Jerry yawned as he flipped pages, envying James Bond as he thwarted assassins and terrorists, darting from close call to close call and from bed to bed, barely lingering to enjoy the scent of the gorgeous women who found him irresistible.

A mole is a deep penetration agent so called because he burrows deep into the fabric of Western imperialism.

During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity.

I worked for MI6 in the Sixties, during the great witch-hunts, when the shared paranoia of the Cold War gripped the services.

Sedition Act," a rider to the Espionage Act. The Sedition Act, which Wilson signed on May 16, 1918, made it illegal to speak, print, write, or publish any "disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language" about the government, the Constitution, the military, or the flag—certainly the single most restrictive gag on free speech and freedom of the press in U.S. history.

the Secret Service had unearthed a covert industrial spy network operating at the behest of a German commercial attaché

bombs set by German agents exploded in two factories in New Jersey.

When a German American vacationing in Florida was caught unprepared by a cold snap and exclaimed within hearing of witnesses, "[D]amn such a country as this," he was arrested for having violated the Espionage Act.

Para Falcó, palabras como patria, amor o futuro no tenían ningún sentido. Era un hombre del momento, entrenado para serlo. Un lobo en la sombra. Ávido y peligroso. Después

There is a kind of followers likewise, which are dangerous, being indeed espials; which inquire the secrets of the house, and bear tales of them, to others. Yet such men, many times, are in great favor; for they are officious, and commonly exchange tales.

I would be a terrible CIA officer in real life.

This is how the Russians have operated for years - they get the goods on people and then they can get you to do what they want. This is how someone like Donald Trump could be turned into a Russian asset.

The government of China has admitted that they've been involved in cyber infiltrations around the world and in governments.

I grew up with Bond.

It's a dream part, running around with guns, being an agent.

There are those who've been hacked by the Chinese and those who don't know they've been hacked by the Chinese.

This is the wonderful thing about espionage, nothing exists any more.

When I served in the Army, along the Iron Curtain we had a word for a person who absconds with information and provides it to another nation: traitor. We also had a name for a person who chooses to reveal secrets he had personally promised to protect: common criminal.