Quotes About Espionage

When I was about, I'd say, 18 or 19 years old, I wanted to be a part of the CIA just because they know those intimate secrets... So I was just always into knowing. I like to know things.

My lab is like a fantasy world - it is more like a 'James Bond' movie!

Gérard de Villiers

wrote to Washington to propose just such a raid: "The enclosed Dispatches from Culper have this moment come to hand. . . . C. writes with great sollicitude for troops to be sent from this side to attack those lying at Setauket. I need not repeat to your Excellency how exceedingly happy I should be to assist in such an Expedition, should it be thot. advisable." To Tallmadge's disappointment, Washington did not approve

submit reports written in invisible ink, which now fell almost exclusively on Tallmadge to reveal and decipher. The job had previously belonged to Washington's aide-de-camp Alexander Hamilton, while Tallmadge was in charge of making sense of the general intelligence and summary reports Woodhull, Roe, and Brewster compiled. But recently Tallmadge had been tasked with the white-ink letters—perhaps after Washington recognized the urgency of the

had letters on his desk from his merchant-spy in New York regarding an officer from New York venturing toward West Point seemed wholly unconnected. Despite all the hints he received from 355, Woodhull, and Townsend, Tallmadge didn't connect the dots until it was almost too late.

All Americans owe a tremendous debt of gratitude to George Washington's secret six.

day André set out northward with the goal of reaching HMS Vulture, a fourteen-gun sloop docked near Teller's Point, by evening. Because it was a British ship, he arrived not as "John Anderson, Patriot merchant" but as himself, bearing letters from General Clinton that

The observation of Major George Beckwith bears repeating: "Washington did not really outfight the British, he simply outspied us!" In

In 2014, former NSA and CIA director Michael Hayden remarked, "We kill people based on metadata.

when the Russians stole it from that agency.

Governments almost never admit to hacking each other's computers. Researchers generally infer the country of origin from the target list.

The president, the secretary of state, and the secretary of defense were lying to the American public—there was no evidence of any attack, and the American destroyers were not on "routine patrol" but on spying missions.

To infiltrate the infiltrators would be to accept the fate of all spies: "As always, if you or any member of your organization is apprehended by the enemy, the Secretary will deny any Knowledge, etc.…

And don't get hurt,' [Dexter] added. 'There's no one to help you up there. And don't go stirring up a lot of trouble for us. This case isn't ripe yet. Until it is, our policy with Mr Big is 'live and let live'.' Bond looked quizzically at Captain Dexter In my job,' he said, 'when I come up against a man like this one, I have another motto. It's 'live and let die'.

He was a secret agent, and still alive thanks to his exact attention to the detail of his profession.

It is not just a question of blowing up a building or shooting a prime minister. Such bourgeois horseplay is not contemplated. Our operation must be delicate, refined and aimed at the heart of the Intelligence apparat of the West.

What's your name? Bond. James Bond. What's yours? She reflected Rider. What Rider? Honeychile. Bond smiled.

Bond frowned. 'It's not difficult to get a Double O number if you're prepared to kill people,' he said. 'That's all the meaning it has. It's nothing to be particularly proud of.

The double 0 numerals signify an agent who has killed and who is privileged to kill on active service.

Garch ahar?

Peter Pedersen

We have been feeling for some time that Le Chiffre is getting into deep water. In nearly all respects he is an admirable agent of the U.S.S.R., but his gross physical habits and predilections are an Achilles heel of which we have been able to take advantage from time to time and one of his mistresses is a Eurasian (No. 1860) controlled by Station F., who has recently been able to obtain insight into his private affairs.

Bond slowly, wearily bent his head and looked at the ground between his spread hands. It was the girl, Tilly. She was watching the buildings below. She had a rifle Ã¢â'¬â€œ a rifle that must have been among the innocent golf clubs Ã¢â'¬â€œ ready to fire on them. Damn and blast the silly bitch!