Quotes About Espionage

While the Germans intercepted and recorded many hours of SIGSALY transmissions, they were never able to interpret them.

Deception is a sort of seduction. In love and war, adultery and espionage, deceit can only succeed if the deceived party is willing, in some way, to be deceived.

No," Daito said. "We're not. You're all strangers to us. For all we know, any one of you could be a Sixer spy.

Erskine Childers

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I've always been baffled by critics of the CIA, who are horrified that it does illegal things. That is the purpose of an intelligence service: to perform illegal acts.

Intelligence services exist to do things that are illegal abroad. They exist to tell lies.

I am indeed a fan of John le Carre's novels.

Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war.

Now, the same Klaus Barbie who took glee in murdering innocent children, is employed—and protected—by the U.S. government.

The fact of the matter is that hundreds of SS officials are now in the United States, with some even working for the CIA. This is a truth that must never be revealed.

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I don't think Bond does too much; he's just suave and sexy. He rolls out with his martini and fancy cars. Wow, it sounds like my life already.

Every time I tell someone that I'm doing 'Spooks,' they're like, 'Wow!' That's a guaranteed reaction. It's such a high-end show, it's so sexy and slick and smooth.

Charles McCarry is the best modern writer on the subject of intrigue - by the breadth of Alan Furst, by the fathom of Eric Ambler, by any measure.

In her time Nor Tigelaar had faced insurrectionists and collaborationists and war profiteers. She'd endured abduction and prison and self-mutilation. She'd sold herself in sex not for cash but for military information that might come in handy to the resistance, and in so doing she'd come across a rum variety of human types.

Intelligence is often viewed as a profession that steals secrets and then knits those secrets together for policymakers in order to inform their judgments.

Espionage, for the most part, involves finding a person who knows something or has something that you can induce them secretly to give to you. That almost always involves a betrayal of trust.

The betrayal of trust carries a heavy taboo.

Thieves, spies and other wise guys are working everywhere…including in branches of the U.S. government.

the hero is a secret agent? Well, who gives a crap about the rest of his case once he has met the heroine. Time for moody angst!

The NSA employs more mathematicians, buys more computer hardware, and intercepts more messages than any other organization in the world.

Gunn, like me, has a James Bond obsession. He would love to be James Bond, and it's a great role that I would love to be, someday.

A dream acting role would be Matt Damon in the Bourne series. I would love to do something like that!