Espionage Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

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.

This is the wonderful thing about espionage, nothing exists any more.

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

When I accepted the commission, I had something of an epiphany in the research I did about the agency, actually the science of espionage. I realized there is a connection between the sciences and the invisible forces of man.

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

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

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

It is essential to seek out enemy agents who have come to conduct espionage against you and to bribe them to serve you. Give them instructions and care for them. Thus doubled agents are recruited and used.

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

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.

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.

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.