Quotes About Subterfuge

What I heard one of the veteran black hats say to a trainee remains true today: "Social engineering is the easiest way to break into a system.

Jason Bourne was the name of someone in American military intelligence—a traitor who was shot dead for his crime. When the present Bourne was recruited into Treadstone he was given the name of the dead man.

Colonel Vivian had convinced himself that Ivor Montagu's enthusiasm for Ping-Pong was a cover for something more sinister.

William Gerbers" was a German-Swiss businessman living in Liverpool who had been conjured into being by Garbo before he even arrived in Britain.

Vivian was not alone in thinking that a man who spent so much time discussing table tennis was probably a spy.

The KGB had long excelled in the dark art of manufacturing "fake news.

Far from being an anticlimax, Garbo's carefully timed non-warning had achieved its purpose. He had passed over what must be seen, in German eyes, as the most important intelligence tip-off of the war, and they had missed it. Like the Madrid radio operator, the Germans had been caught napping.

John Cecil Masterman:

While Bevan and Clarke began weaving together the strands of Operation Barclay, Montagu and Cholmondeley went hunting for a dead body. In his initial plan, Cholmondeley had assumed one could simply pop into a military hospital and pick a bargain cadaver off the shelf for ten pounds. The reality was rather different.

If Baron von Roenne was the best way of planting an idea in Hitler's head, then Baron Oshima was the most reliable way of finding out if it had taken root there.

One of the oldest gambits in intelligence is "the dangle," when one side appears to make a play for someone on the other, lures him into complicity, and gains his trust, before exposing him.

In addition twelve real, and seven imaginary persons have been foisted upon the enemy as Double Cross spies.

Walker prepared his flock, and in August more than a thousand homing pigeons, each carrying a list of questions deliberately framed to suggest a looming attack, were dropped in a flapping deluge on Calais and Brittany. "The mere fact of increasing the number of pigeons used has a certain deceptive value," Robertson gleefully reported.

The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.

Logic is neither a science nor an art, but a dodge.

Remember, a Trojan is more than a horse.

When you are strong, appear weak. The first warmaster

Nothing increases the odds of victory more than letting the enemy think he''s already taken your secret weapon."

Any time I'm not shooting my mouth off to a clichéd, two-bit creature of the night like you, it's because I'm up to something.

I know no one is perfect, that behind every facade of perfection is a writhing mess of subterfuge and secret sorrows... but even taking that into account, Noah was pretty much perfect.

A mole could only avoid and evade the monitoring systems of which he was aware. Which made it crucial that almost no one be permitted to see the whole picture. Within

Did he not understand she would recognize the framing? They were taught as recruits never to threaten openly. Instead, they were taught to pose as the target's protector and ally. Even if the target understands the subterfuge, the training went, he'll still feel respected that you offered a fig leaf rather than a naked display of your power over him. And then she realized: Of course he understands.

Movement, after all, seemed futile to him. He felt that imagination could easily be substituted for the vulgar realities of things. It was possible, in his opinion, to gratify the most extravagant, absurd desires by a subtle subterfuge, by a slight modification of the object of one's wishes.

In his opinion, it was possible to appease certain desires reputed to be the most difficult to satisfy under normal conditions – and that, what's more, by a subtle subterfuge, by an approximate simulation of the object of those very desires.