Quotes About Espionage

Out on his flank, a soldier whipped up his crossbow, cocked it with a jerk on a leather thong, took aim and let fly. The iron-tipped arrow whistled through the air and found its mark, straight between the shoulder blades of the retreating spy. The man dropped like a stone. A short scream became a cough, and the cough a torrent of blood on the sand.

At the most basic level of protecting a writer's personal safety, democratic countries offer a further advantage. If you steal hundreds of thousands of documents from the Russian state and put them online, the FSB will try to kill you. Steal American secrets, and the CIA will not.

The US State Department cables Bradley Manning leaked to Julian Assange contained the names of Afghans who had helped allied forces fight the Taliban.

Cyber attacks are not what makes the cool war 'cool.' As a strategic matter, they do not differ fundamentally from older tools of espionage and sabotage

Kriegler's assertion that the Germans had told London

Just like James fucking Bond.

Are you ready? You and I are going to break into the Kremlin. - Amy, to Dan

Conventional wisdom had it that every handler wants a highly placed source.

In Russia, everything is a secret, but nothing is a mystery.

For one hit he'd done a version of Victor/Victoria, pretending to be a man pretending to be a woman pretending to be a man when he'd been hired to kill a paranoid and heavily guarded government official.

They know what we're planning, and we know what they're planning. But they don't know we know.

Joey almost smiled at how the spy chief's jaw muscles were working hard to keep his expression neutral.