Asha Rangappa Quotes

There are more foreign intelligence officers inside the US now, working against US interests, than there were at the height of the cold war.

Agents of disruption, subversion, sabotage and disinformation tunnelers and smugglers, listeners and forgers, trainers and recruiters and talent spotters and couriers and watchers and seducers, assassins and balloonists, lip readers and disguise artists.

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.

Since real spies are so good, you never really know what actual spying is. But I do think spying is a lot more dangerous than we are led to believe.

Perhaps my information hurt the Soviet Union more than it helped. I have no idea. It was not something I ever discussed with the KGB officers that I was dealing with.

There is only one law of espionage—there are always going to be spies.

It is important to seek out the spies that the enemy has sent to spy on you so you can bribe them to really spy for you.

If this was a graduating class of CIA case officers my advice would be short and to the point: Admit nothing, deny everything, and make counteraccusations.

I would be a terrible CIA officer in real life.

I really wanted to be a spy. I guess it's a bit like acting, where you play a role.

There is no place where espionage is not possible.

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

I saw a limit to what I was giving as kind of a scam I was running on the KGB, by giving them people that I knew were their double agents fed to us.

In my head, I think I'd make a perfect spy, but in reality, I don't think I'd fare very well.

I am always up to steal secrets from smart people.

I handed over names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union.

Since that time I have had continuous contact with the persons who were completely unknown to me, except that I knew they would hand whatever information I gave them to the Russian authorities.

Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.

I've always wanted to be a spy, and frankly I'm a little surprised that British intelligence has never approached me.

An intelligence service is the ideal vehicle for a conspiracy [against its own government]. Its members can travel about at home and abroad under secret orders, and no questions are asked. Every scrap of paper in the files, its membership, its expenditure of funds, its contacts, even enemy contacts, are state secrets.

Secrecy is as essential to Intelligence as vestments to a Mass, or darkness to a spiritualist seance, and must at all costs be maintained, quite irrespective of whether or not it serves any purpose.

Espionage is largely separate from the mainstream of foreign policy … you nail the spy and you punish him, and you move on.

This town leaks like a sieve. Sometimes I think that the easiest thing on the world would be to be a spy against the United States of America

Intelligence without counter-intelligence is useless.

Intelligence is about lies. If something is legal and above board, you would not need the CIA to do it.