Quotes About Espionage

There's nothing terribly wrong with The November Man in a serviceable late-night cable TV sort of way but neither is there anything terribly right about it. It's unnecessary and derivative.

There is a lot of money to be made in the business of secrets, of course.

It is getting to the point where the mark of international distinction and service to humanity is no longer the Nobel Peace Price, but an espionage indictment from the US Department of Justice.

The only way to Cuba is with the CIA.

Oct 2001, NSA and the US government started adopting procedures, techniques and processes that Soviet Union and Stasi and all countries behind iron curtain were using.

In a few days an officer came to our camp, under a flag of truce, and informed Hamilton, then a captain of artillery, but afterwards the aid of General Washington, that Captain Hale had been arrested within the British lines condemned as a spy, and executed that morning.

But Hall was not stopping there. The next stage was for him and Drake to send false reports back, using the names of spies who had actually been arrested – a technique that was perfected in the Second World War – to give the impression that they had uncovered military preparations to invade the German coast in Schleswig-Holstein. The purpose was to force the enemy fleet out to defend their coast.

This was Khalil's doing, and Josh's, and the three nations that could find no better way than stealing her.

Those who spy on the people end up themselves being spied on by the people.

As the CIA and KGB, like God and Satan, fight Miltonic battles across five continents.

The United States government first learned of the diversion of the W-88 nuclear warhead design in late 1995.

I worked for MI6 in the Sixties, during the great witch-hunts, when the shared paranoia of the Cold War gripped the services.

...also took for granted that secret services were the only real measure of a nations political health, the only real expression of its subconscious.

Ally Carter, See How They Run

I was not extremely patriotic about Mother Russia. I played their game, pretending. You have to deal with, you know, party people, KGB. Horrifying.

You want me to spy on a National Colour operative?''Wow, ' she said, 'you got it. I thought I was going to have to explain that one for a lot longer.

My name is E. Howard Hunt. I'm currently retired from more than 22 years in the profession of espionage.

Had her brother lived to face a trial, Asia surely would have been charged, for Booth used her home as a safe house, taught her the Confederate cipher code and entrusted her with papers

observations. Therefore, the entire archbishop's residence, from the bedroom to the dining room, was bugged with listening devices. The communists were rather clumsy about it, pretending to show up as random technicians who needed to work on the phone lines or electrical system.

The British knew it. The navy knew it. The FBI knew it.

So this is where the CIA began— with J. Edgar Hoover telling the British to go to hell, and the British not appreciating it. This was also when the British began making friendly advances toward Elizebeth Friedman.

During the Second World War, an American woman figured out how to sweep the globe of undercover Nazis.

She had conquered at least forty-eight different clandestine radio circuits and three Enigma machines to get these plaintexts. The pages found their way to the navy and to the army. To FBI headquarters in Washington and bureaus around the world. To Britain. There was no mistaking their origin. Each sheet said "CG Decryption" at the bottom, in black ink. These pieces of paper saved lives. They almost certainly stopped coups.

The wild success of the "Ducase" had two large and lasting effects on America. The first was that it discouraged future Nazi attempts at spying within the borders of the United States. The second was that it made J. Edgar Hoover a legend.