Quotes About Espionage

Spy Museum.

I find it very easy playing Bond. I think he's hilarious. He gets himself into some extraordinarily funny situations.

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.

It was a good 15 or 20 years before anyone at Rand would be in the same room with me. They didn't want the question raised, 'What's your relationship with Daniel Ellsberg?' And not one of them wrote me a letter because they didn't want a letter of theirs to show up in my trash - which the FBI had been going through.

I'd love to do a James Bond-y kind of villain!

and that person might be Nickie Haflinger!

Everyone was a spook or dupe or asset, a double, courier, cutout or defector, or was related to one. We were all linked in a vast and rhythmic coincidence, a daisy chain of rumor, suspicion and secret wish.

The stool pigeon is the coming race.

This is a novel of asymmetric warfare.

Speedboats, made-up aristocratic titles, exploding dildos… You're not living in a fucking TV series, Villanelle.

Luke Jennings

women accounted for some twenty percent of its agents over the five years of its existence. Like their male counterparts, they represented all classes of society, from maids and laundresses to Paris socialites.

The Thirty-nine Steps.

In the late 1960s, Marie-Madeleine Fourcade pulled back the veil cloaking her wartime activities in her gripping memoir, Noah's Ark, which was rightly described by MI6's Kenneth Cohen as "a Homeric saga" of her and Alliance's daily life under German occupation. But like Fourcade herself, the memoir is little known today.

She turned next to Moray's base in Fife, cutting his supply lines.

What are you now, Jaz Bond? Double-oh-Six, the chhakka secret agent?

the entire Vietnam peace movement had been KGB funded, as were many journalism departments.

John Sandford

He wrote a novel, The Moon Is Down, for a precursor to the CIA

The French would do whatever it took to get Britain to commit itself. In 1909 they produced a carefully faked document, said to have been discovered when a French commercial traveler picked up the wrong bag on a train, which purported to show Germany's invasion plans for Britain.

I want to make a picture about the Russian secret police - the GOP.

Breaking into the house in the middle of the night just wasn't his style. He did his best work in plain view, and, usually, his tongue was doing most

Have you ever or are you now involved in espionage or sabotage, or in terrorist activities, or genocide? I think we can put a big yes down for all of the above.

All women are natural born espionage agents.