Quotes About Espionage

You ever read American Tabloid, by James Ellroy?" "No." "Give it a look. Things weren't quite that crazy, but they were damn close.

Hanley said. "We've replaced them with corrected versions." "Corrected?" Cooper asked. "Explaining how the Apollo missions were faked to bankrupt the Soviet Union.

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If it hadn't been for Bill Macdonald's book 'The True Intrepid,' I might never have found out about the women who went down to work in secret in New York for our own spymaster Sir William Stephenson in the Second World War.

World War II provides a string of celebrated cases of deception and manipulation.

That world of spies and espionage, there's a coldness to it. That's what makes those worlds fascinating - and what makes le Carre's work so interesting.

I can watch 'Mission: Impossible' all day every day. Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt is so hot.

Ian Fleming and Norman Felton were friends. 'U.N.C.L.E.' was basically a tongue-in-cheek 'Bond.' It wasn't quite as serious and dramatic as 'Bond,' nor did we have the budget for that.

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Who's James Bond?" Zabulon inquired.

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Tonight he was a firm adherent to the classic McCloud school of thought; plant bugs first, apologize later.

I have no spy stories to tell, because I saw no spies. Nor did I understand, at that time, any opposition between American and Russian national interest.

For something that's supposed to be secret, there is a lot of intelligence history. Every time I read one book, two more are published.

With the red wig and her own work clothes, she thought she cut a pretty fine Black Widow herself.

the jury was overwhelmed by the tangle of conflicting tales of Austrian spies, slave-smugglers, mysterious veiled ladies, nameless hired bravos, Italian politics, and enraged divas

Barry Eisler

A mole could only avoid and evade the monitoring systems of which he was aware. Which made it crucial that almost no one be permitted to see the whole picture. Within

I knew from her deportment she was trained. Therefore likely to be working with an organization, rather than on some sort of private mission.

Barry Eisler

Barry Eisler

previous secretary of war, Henry Stimson, memorably put it, "gentlemen do not read each other's mail." One of the few American officials who had promoted intelligence

Some CIA officers thought of the FBI as a haven for dumb cops and ham-fisted thugs. FBI agents, returning the favor, considered CIA men amateurish prima donnas and, as one put it, "mostly rich boys, trust fund snobs who thought they were God's answer to all the world's ills.

Arab terrorist, international hitman, it's all a bit Andy McNab, isn't it?