Quotes About Espionage

No one's interested really in knowing what policies or diplomatic initiatives or arms negotiations might have been compromised by me.

We do nods to Charlie's Angels and Mission Impossible because they are popular with our fan base.

For a brief moment, Ian Fleming made being an Englishman seem sexy, even to the French. He should have been awarded a knighthood, even possibly the Garter.

I think John le Carre is, at 77, the greatest living writer alive. He is a master craftsman.

Cyber espionage is very lucrative for economic benefit to a nation.

I think it's safe to say that the Russians are extremely interested in anything that has to do with the U.S. political system. And it's not out of the realm of possibility that they are in many other systems.

I've been studying China for quite some time now, and I'm big on China as well. And I think we need to be very concerned about Chinese technology getting into our systems or the systems of our allies.

Foreign agents are taking advantage of loopholes in our laws.

Paul Cleveland, the American Ambassador in Wellington, informed Lange that henceforth his country would not be receiving NSA's precious sigint jewels. Lange responded tartly that they were not jewels by any means, and the intelligence cut-off was probably a good thing, since he would now 'have more time to do the crossword".

The Cold War isn't thawing it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn't sleeping it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting.

Tell me immediately who those people are in that glass capsule!' 'Ah-ha,' said the Chief Spy, twirling his false moustache.

Pike stepped into the first bay and spotted the man from the Monte Carlo in an office at the rear of the building. He was in front of a television with his back to the door. The Dodgers were playing a day game. Pike checked to see that the other two men were still struggling with the fender, then slipped toward the office as silently as a fish gliding through water. On

Three g's, and an r: Get in, get the info, get out, relocate.

When a spy is captured, he takes a suicide pill, believing it's better to die than be tortured. By that reasoning shouldn't those same pills be issued to anyone foolish enough to fall in love? —The Lighter Side of Death

If we are going to conduct espionage in the future, we are going to have to make some changes in the relationship between the intelligence community and the public it serves.

We have a complicated intelligence relationship with France. We have a complicated intelligence relationship with other - with other allies.

He things we think he's a double agent, working for them but secretly working for us. He doesn't know we know he's a triple agent, working for them but secretly working for us but really he's secretly working for them. Dexter, how's your brain?" "Hurting.

When you're dealing with espionage and covert affairs, sometimes the secret is more exciting than the knowledge.

I've met enough KGB colonels in my life.

Greenglass was arrested in June 1950, six months after Fuchs, and received a thirty-year sentence. His case might only have been a footnote had it not blown the lid off the far greater treachery of the Rosenbergs and triggered the events that would lead to the most infamous espionage trial of the century. The Rosenbergs were executed in 1953.

Three seconds later, Briggs and Sterling were inside the suite. I heard the door shut behind them. And then the feed went black.

This is some double-oh-seven-level shift right here, Ave. I'm motherfaxing James Bond, motherfaxers!

The name's Bond. James Omar Bond.

Hat dich jemand reinkommen sehen? Ja, das FBI, die CIA, die NSA, die DEA und das MI6. Ach ja, und die GPB. Die GPB? Gesamte Polizeibelegschaft.