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Quotes About Espionage

James Bond had very little to do with the navy at all: it was a convenient front. Bond was secret service from the start ....
~ Henry Chancellor
Week after week, the heads of Red Army Intelligence received updates on the Wehrmacht's preparations.
~ Leopold Trepper
It is essential to seek out enemy agents who have come to conduct espionage against you and to bribe them to serve you. Give them instructions and care for them. Thus doubled agents are recruited and used.
~ Sun Tzu
The great secret behind classified projects is that most of them are so utterly boring and uninteresting that James Bond wouldn't even take a second look at them.
~ Kevin J. Anderson
In the case of Pakistan, the CIA actually used a fake vaccination campaign to try to locate Osama bin Laden, so now vaccination is associated with espionage.
~ Eula Biss
So this is where the CIA began—with J. Edgar Hoover telling the British to go to hell, and the British not appreciating it.
~ Jason Fagone
If you would like to imagine the birth of the mighty National Security Agency, please visualize two men in a small room, one with a pug nose, pecking at a typewriter, the other a dandy in a suit and bow tie, smoking a pipe, wondering what his wife was up to at home, and if she was missing him.
~ Jason Fagone
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.
~ Jasper Fforde
By definition, intelligence deals with the unclear, the unknown, the deliberately hidden. What the enemies of the United States hope to deny we work to reveal.
~ George Tenet
I'm really starting to like all this spy work," Vee said. "When my normal life gets boring, all I have to do is sidle up next to you.
~ Becca Fitzpatrick
I wrote 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold' at the age of 30 under intense, unshared personal stress and in extreme privacy. As an intelligence officer in the guise of a junior diplomat at the British Embassy in Bonn, I was a secret to my colleagues, and much of the time to myself.
~ John le Carre
My father worked for Unilever, running a mass-spectrometry lab - mass spectrometry is a process for elucidating the chemical structures of molecules, which means that he presided over a legal form of corporate espionage, breaking down the component parts of competitors' products in order to copy them.
~ David Baddiel
Edward Snowden may not be a Chinese mole, but he might as well be. He's just handed Beijing a major score, while the NSA struggles to pick up the pieces - and the rest of us pay the price in terms of future national security.
~ Arthur L. Herman
Organizations, whether they are nonprofits or enterprise, need to be aware that nation-states are coming after them for political espionage, economic espionage, or destructive attacks.
~ Dmitri Alperovitch
I was a case officer, otherwise known as an operations officer. My role was to go out and convince Al Qaeda operatives to instead work with us as well as to convince people and officials in foreign governments to work on behalf of the U.S. government secretly.
~ Evan McMullin
Your on the planet too. Why should James Bond have all the action, fun, money, and resort hotel living.
~ Unknown
Lom mister,' he said, and winked at me. 'It's the CIA, isn't it? You're an agent, you tell people you're a journalist because that's good cover ...
~ Paul Theroux
Brava, my dear. Once a spy always a spy.
~ Danielle Steel
She had been transformed into a lethal machine to gather information, and destroy anyone who interfered with her.
~ Danielle Steel
She works in the intelligence field. They're trained to lie and sell it like the truth. They obviously undergo the same indoctrination as politicians.
~ David Baldacci
WILL ROBIE CROUCHED shadowlike at a window in a deserted building, inside a country that was currently an ally of the United States. Tomorrow that could change.
~ David Baldacci
Everybody has always underrated the Russians. They keep their own secrets alike from foe and friends.
~ Winston S. Churchill
Deep Throat is a guy who could have your files and mine in his trust.
~ Unknown
Kalau menghendaki mata-mata yang hebat, berilah aku seorang pelacur yang baik. Mereka sangat baik dalam tugasnya.
~ Cindy Adams