Espionage Quotes

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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.

The human spy, in terms of the American espionage effort, had never been terribly pertinent.

If I could rub a genie and anything could happen? Truthfully, my other love, and this is a complete 180, but I'd love to do a spy or an espionage pic, like a James Bond movie.

All warfare is based on deception. There is no place where espionage is not used. Offer the enemy bait to lure him.

There is no place where espionage is not possible.

An espionage organization is a collector: it collects raw information. That gets processed by a machinery that is supposed to resolve its reliability, and to present a finished product.

When you grow suspicious of a person and begin a system of espionage upon him, your punishment will be that you will find your suspicions true.

My name is E. Howard Hunt. I'm currently retired from more than 22 years in the profession of espionage.

The difficulties of conducting espionage against the Soviet Union in the Soviet Union were such that historically the Agency had backed away from the task.

We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage.

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

I'm sort of fascinated by the whole espionage crime thing.

All women are natural born espionage agents.

The Obama administration has attempted to prosecute more journalists and journalistic sources under the same Espionage Act she was being investigated under in all previous presidencies combined.

Once you've lived the inside-out world of espionage, you never shed it. It's a mentality, a double standard of existence.

Democrats and Republicans were essentially the same party with different faces and that was why, no matter how many promises each leader made, significant change rarely transpired.

In civilizations without boats, dreams dry up, espionage takes the place of adventure and the police take the place of pirates.

The habits and language of clandestinity can intoxicate even its own practitioners.

Deception is a sort of seduction. In love and war, adultery and espionage, deceit can only succeed if the deceived party is willing, in some way, to be deceived.

Generally speaking, espionage offers each spy an opportunity to go crazy in a way he finds irresistible.

You couldn't trust anyone or anything that belonged to the world of espionage.

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

The only reason that there has been no sabotage or espionage on the part of Japanese-Americans is that they are waiting for the right moment to strike.

I am a huge fan of Alan Furst. Furst is the best in the business--the most talented espionage novelist of our generation.

Indeed, the U.N. is the main Soviet espionage center in this country.

To charge Snowden with espionage is a severe form of political persecution.

I grew up reading the classic novels of Cold War espionage, and I studied Russian history and Soviet foreign policy.

Spy' is such a short ugly word. I prefer 'espionage.' Those extra three syllables really say something.

It is ironic that Samuel Berger learned of this espionage in exactly the same month that Al Gore was attending his now famous fund-raiser with Buddhist nuns in Southern California.

I cannot think that espionage can be recommended as a technique for building an impressive civilization. It's a lout's game.

It is getting to the point where the mark of international distinction and service to humanity is no longer the Nobel Peace Price, but an espionage indictment from the US Department of Justice.

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.

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

Richard Nixon was a Republican presidential candidate who encouraged crooks to commit espionage against the Democratic National Committee in order to gain an edge in a presidential election.

But I made him the Deputy Secretary for Homeland Security because that added an element of political espionage.

[My novels] introduce levels of intelligence ... moral doubt [and] self-doubt, which may not pertain [to real-world espionage].

The best leaks always take place in the urinal.

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

Magic is used in espionage, all the time, for clandestine things. I've got a whole library from a gentleman who was hired by the CIA to create magic technology for the use of anti-terrorism.

Mainly, when I go see a show, unfortunately it's more industrial espionage than it is going to actually enjoy a show.

It is amazing what a woman can do if only she ignores what men tell her she can't.

These programs were never about terrorism: they're about economic spying, social control, and diplomatic manipulation. They're about power.

If you agree to work for us, half the time you won't know the purpose of your duties . . . and when we do explain, we might not be telling the truth. But that's the real world, folks . . .

The CIA’s offices in London were no secret to the MI6. In fact, the two agencies were practically kissing cousins.

In the intelligence community, a rumor was almost as good as a confirmation.

Nothing can stop an enemy from picking wireless messages out of the free air - and nothing did.

Misdirection. False signals. Spreading confusion. This is the Tao of deception.

Never patronize your readers. That means don't talk down to them.

There is now the capacity to make tyranny total in America. Only law ensures that we never fall into that abyss—the abyss from which there is no return.

Do you know what love is? I'll tell you: it is whatever you can still betray.