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Quotes About Espionage

I love the combination of the words 'spies' and 'Balkans.' It's like meat and potatoes.
~ Alan Furst
While to some TikTok may seem like a harmless app, TikTok presents a significant counter-intelligence threat.
~ Abigail Spanberger
Understanding the Chinese counterintelligence threat better will help us respond to it more effectively. China is taking a multi-faceted approach, so we've got to have a multi-faceted response.
~ Christopher A. Wray
Because there are little to no consequences for conducting cyberattacks, criminals and nation-states are becoming bolder in their threats and behavior. Russia, China, North Korea and Iran are increasingly hacking into U.S. companies and government networks for espionage purposes or financial gain.
~ Michael McCaul
China and Russia are regarded as the most formidable cyber threats.
~ Barton Gellman
Besides the conventional military threats, North Korean cyber capabilities are growing.
~ Cory Gardner
Maha Kumbh' blends elements from Hindu mythology with the international espionage thriller. Nothing like it has ever been attempted on Indian television.
~ Gautam Rode
I think, primarily, we love spy thrillers, and I think, instinctively, we love the tension that those thrillers can bring.
~ Alistair Petrie
Look realistically at espionage thrillers again. They're not only alive, readers are excited about them.
~ Gayle Lynds
Mysteries include so many things: the noir novel, espionage novel, private eye novels, thrillers, police procedurals. But the pure detective story is where there's a detective and a criminal who's committed a murder and leaves clues for the detective and the careful reader to find.
~ Otto Penzler
The Russians thrive on misinformation and disinformation.
~ Fiona Hill
Deep Throat is a guy who could have your files and mine in his trust.
~ Charles Colson
Covert operations relied on the unguarded slip, the unconscious choosing of one word over another.
~ Sara Sheridan
The last time when I handed over information was in February or March 1949.
~ Klaus Fuchs
I said in court a long time ago that I didn't see that the Soviet Union was significantly helped by the information I gave them, nor that the United States was significantly harmed.
~ Aldrich Ames
Another door swung open, and another guard appeared, this time with Gabrielle, who wore a black catsuit and rappelling harness.
~ Ally Carter
I smuggled the camera, it was no problem to smuggle the camera there. And I took 60 photos, two films, during the time when there was no one in the control room, in the building.
~ Mordechai Vanunu
Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti – the KGB – trains a thousand agents at a time.
~ Sidney Sheldon
How do you recruit an agent? The three Vs - vzyatochnichestvo, vymogatel'stvo, vera. It works just as well in English: bribery, blackmail, belief.
~ Simon Mawer
The French had handed the information from Schmidt to the Poles because they believed it to be of no value, but the Poles had proved them wrong.
~ Simon Singh
the numerous losses were either the result of natural misfortune or caused by a British spy who had infiltrated the German navy. The breaking of Enigma was considered impossible and inconceivable.
~ Simon Singh
NSA employs more mathematicians, buys more computer hardware, and intercepts more messages than any other organization in the world. It is the world leader when it comes to snooping.
~ Simon Singh
Ã…â"¢íká se, že zkratka NSA ve skute?nosti znamená "Never Say Anything
~ Simon Singh
When Hermann Göring visited Warsaw in 1934, he was totally unaware of the fact that his communications were being intercepted and deciphered. As he and other German dignitaries laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier next to the offices of the Biuro Szyfrów, Rejewski could stare down at them from his window, content in the knowledge that he could read their most secret communications.
~ Simon Singh