Quotes About Espionage

Under the charge against us the normal rules of evidence are suspended. For us they don't exist.WE are charged not with committing espionage, but with conspiring to commit espionage. Since espionage itself does not have to be proved, no evidence is required that we have done anything. All that is required is evidence that we intended to do something. And what is this evidence? Coincidentally enough under the law the testimony of our so-called accomplice is considered evidence.

Theremin's mentor, Soviet physicist Abram Ioffe, was reporting to Stalin with information leeched from the Manhattan Project, espionage that helped the Russians birth their own atomic bomb by 1949—an effort Theremin was likely involved in. Bob had no clue that Theremin had concocted elaborate bugging devices to spy on Western powers, or that he was still working for the other side in the Cold War, deeply entrenched in Soviet intelligence organizations

The betrayal of trust carries a heavy taboo.

Our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet Union.

Foreign Ministry guys don't become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not to volunteer to Western intelligence agencies.

Espionage, for the most part, involves finding a person who knows something or has something that you can induce them secretly to give to you. That almost always involves a betrayal of trust.

Let's say a Soviet exchange student back in the '70s would go back and tell the KGB about people and places and things that he'd seen and done and been involved with. This is not really espionage there's no betrayal of trust.

There are so many things a large intelligence espionage organization can do to justify its existence, that people can get promotions for, because it could result in results.

And so, Woodhull single-mindedly devoted himself to destroying the British, their allies, and all that they stood for by spying the daylights out of them.

I'm a huge James Bond fan and watched the movies growing up.

In the '60s - and right up to the present day - the identity of a member of the British Secret Services was and is, quite rightly, a state secret. To divulge it is a crime. The Services may choose to leak a name when it pleases them.

Leaking of classified material is a concern.

I suspect Obama did not know he was recording Angela Merkel's cell phones.

Lady Pamela Sutton stared at the dreary government-issued posters on the wall of her small cubicle in Hut 3.

Soviet physicists realized in 1940 that the United States must also be pursuing a program when the names of prominent physicists, chemists, metallurgists and mathematicians disappeared from international journals: secrecy itself gave the secret away.

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Nuestro espía de El Cairo es el más grande de todos los héroes.   ERWIN ROMMEL, septiembre de 1942

No doubt a serious spy would pretend to have no interest in politics, or even to be a Republican.

All the governments just want to have more power when it comes to economic espionage, diplomatic manipulation and political influence.

Kink isn't a crime; conspiring with a foreign power to commit espionage, fix election is. Stay focused.

if people weren't sinners, every intelligence network would be out of business

Moral judgements are singularly out of place in espionage. —Graham Greene

graying spymaster

A lady should never marry a man without knowing he is a spy.