Quotes About Espionage

The OSS had developed a uniquely American cadre of intelligence analysts, but Donovan and his star officer, Allen W. Dulles, were enthralled by espionage and sabotage, skills at which Americans were amateurs. Donovan depended on British intelligence to school his men in the dark arts. The bravest of the OSS, the ones who inspired legends, were the men who jumped behind enemy lines, running guns, blowing up bridges, plotting against the Nazis with the French and the Balkan resistance movements.

But Freeh's FBI managed to bury the fact that its most highly valued source on Chinese espionage in the United States, a politically wired California woman named Katrina Leung, had been spying for China throughout the 1980s and 1990s. All the while, she was having sex with the special agent in charge of her case, a top supervisor of the FBI's China Squad, James J. Smith—and occasionally with a leading FBI counterintelligence expert on China, William Cleveland.

But no one wanted to embarrass the Bureau. The case festered for years. Not until after Freeh's departure was it clear that the Chinese, Russian, and Cuban intelligence services all had penetrated the FBI in the 1990s. So had a member of the world's most dangerous and least-known terrorist organization. His name was Ali Mohamed. Al-Qaeda had a double agent posing as an informer for the FBI.

From 1966 to 1976 ... The primary cause in [the] decline in FBI counterespionage and counterintelligence cases was the ceaseless demand by Presidents Johnson and Nixon to focus on the political warfare against the American left.... - "Espionage Against the United States by American Citizens, 1947-2001, Defense Personnel Security Research Center, July 2002

It takes 5 to 7 years to turn a novice into a case officer capable of working in the capitals of the world.

Stellar Wind resurrected Cold War tactics with twenty-first-century technology. It let the FBI work with the NSA outside of the limits of the law.

The Bureau had conducted uncounted break-ins and black-bag jobs on Hoover's say-so. The

Películas: El caso Bourne30 (Bourne Identity), Zombies party31 (Shaun of the Dead).

Bodyguards offer fake security. The real security comes from having your enemies know nothing about you.

Sometimes James Bond movies drive me crazy. They're fun to watch, but they don't have anything to do at all with what intelligence officers really do.

One of the things that makes the Bourne movies so exciting, I think, is you do get to go on a journey. Generally, through the franchise, that journey is in Europe.

When I was younger, I actually wanted to be a CIA agent. Really. I even did the online questionnaire.

Every intelligence operation carries risks.

I joined the CIA in 1985 as an operations officer in the Clandestine Service.

En uno de los films de James Bond, El mañana nunca muere, el villano Elliot Carver le dice: "Ambos somos hombres de acción, señor Bond, pero su era se está acabando. Las palabras son las nuevas armas. Los satélites, la nueva artillería".

NSA was a bottom feeder

se encontraba su hombre junto a una computadora portátil abierta, tecleando algo con las manos enfundadas en unos guantes de látex.

It's amazing," Carrington continued, "how close Washington came to losing to the British. I mean, the man lost more battles than he won. Defeat after defeat, for years. What turned things around was that he embraced espionage.

MI 16 or the CIA.

I decided that five main points were essential to my break: 1) a weapon; 2) a hiding place; 3) an automobile for swift movement; 4) an identity, an official record of the fact that a man named Chambers had worked in Washington in the years 1937 and 1938; 5) a life preserver, in the form of copies of official documents stolen by the apparatus, which, should the party move against my life, I might have an outside chance of using as a dissuader.

And even if you're right, the CIA paid millions of dollars to men trying to kill goats by staring at them," I said.

It was hard enough to design chips in normal times. Doing so while battling the KGB was impossible. A

It was hard enough to design chips in normal times. Doing so while battling the KGB was impossible.

head. "You will not tell?" She shook her head again. "But how else can we believe you? You mean you are willing to be shot as a spy rather than give his name?" "Would his name