Quotes About Espionage

All warfare is based on deception. There is no place where espionage is not used. Offer the enemy bait to lure him.

I have covered Israeli hostage and M.I.A. cases for more than 15 years, including the covert ways in which Israel's powerful espionage agencies operate to bring soldiers home alive or dead. Over that time, the issue has come to dominate public discourse to a degree that no one could have predicted.

I was, in my own eyes, a veritable James Bond — only younger, darker, and possibly better paid.

John le Carré's Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy in many ways defines the spy genre; it introduces the grand theme of ferreting out the Russian agent high up in British intelligence.

The French seized his arms and put a blade to his throat, calling to Eroica, "Geben Sie oben

Isn't it better to arrest and prosecute a hundred innocent people and catch among them one spy than to let the spy go free?

If there's a cyberattack from China or Russia or Romania or Mexico, it may well run through a server in another country. And it may take months before you know where it really came from.

With Fancy Bear, we have medium-level confidence it's GRU, which is Russia's military intelligence agency, and with Cozy Bear, we have low-level confidence it's FSB, the Russian federal security service.

Communists then, dopers now, tomorrow, who knew, maybe the faggots, so what, it was all the same beef wasn't it? Anybody looking like a normal American but living a secret life was always good for a pop if times got slow- easy and cost-effective, that was simple Law Enforcement 101.

Trained by the KGB to spread confusion and doubt, actual diplomacy was not part of the Russian's repertoire.

He deemed the "first level" operatives to be Richard Helms, George Pender, John Philip Nichols, and Ray Cline. The second level included Robert Chasen, E. Howard Hunt, Edwin Wilson, Thomas Clines, and Ted Shackley.

Hunt had helped set up the Bay of Pigs, was one of the Watergate "plumbers," and was alleged by one Lee Harvey Oswald familiar to have involved him in a mind-control operation.25

Trail of the Octopus,

the apostasy laws in God's Law are not laws against mere unbelief or misguided worship. Those laws were designed to protect the legal integrity of the nation (criminalizing such actions as treason, conspiracy, seditious revolt, and espionage) and to bring judgment against wicked idolatry (criminalizing such actions as cultural subversion and public mayhem).

Once Akash set me up with invisibility and taught me some basic killing skills,

In the highly classified manual of dezinformatsiya that codified my life within the Soviet intelligence community, it was proclaimed on the first page, all in upper case letters: "IF YOU ARE GOOD AT DISINFORMATION, YOU CAN GET AWAY WITH ANYTHING.

Fanny zag ik niet meer. We waren overeengekomen dat ze pas bij me zou komen op de dag voor de aanslag, voor de laatste instructies, want zij moest de bommen klaarmaken en ze aan me geven. De kameraad die ik nog één keer ontmoette, gaf me het precieze tijdstip op: kwart voor twaalf 's avonds. Het was ons onmogelijk de schouwburg binnen te komen, want daar mocht je alleen in op uitnodiging; we moesten dus wachten onder de zuilengalerij.

'A Spy in the House', the first of Y. S. Lee's 'The Agency' novels, is pure confection, an historical romp through England at the height of The Great Stink that imagines a secret spy ring for women tucked away where few notice but powerful factions clamor for their services.

What was once a comparatively minor threat - people hacking for fun or for bragging rights - has turned into full-blown economic espionage and extremely lucrative cyber crime.

No more turning a blind eye to Chinese spies in our nuclear labs. No more keeping silent about Chinese slave labor camps.

Israelis cannot enter Iran, so Israel, Iranian officials believe, has devoted huge resources to recruiting Iranians who leave the country on business trips and turning them into agents.

The subject matter is very tricky. It's about the Munich massacre and what Mossad did afterwards with the assassination squads. I think it's a turning point in history, especially for the Palestinians.

Growing up, my favorite TV show was 'The Man From U.N.C.L.E.', hands down.

'The East' could easily be a TV show.