Marv Levy Quotes

The mere fear that there is a mole within an agency can set off a chain reaction and a hunt for that particular mole which can paralyze the agency for weeks and months and years even, in a search

We knew we were talking about spies. I knew he knew I knew. I was digging my own grave.

They were conspiring to desert us in the night and steal some of our horses... we engaged a spy.

We have learned in recent years to translate almost all of political life in terms of conspiracy. And the spy novel, as never before, really, has come into its own.

It had all the earmarks of a CIA operation; the bomb killed everybody in the room except the intended target!

In basic training we had been told to watch out for Japanese spies.

Spy plots are hard, really hard.

The 'Bourne' movies are great in their own ways; it introduces a whole other sort of allegory about the Bush years. The secrecy and the threats of a big global organization.

It is clear that in some instances the use of microphone surveillance is the only possible way of uncovering the activities of espionage agents, possible saboteurs and subversive persons. In such instances I am of the opinion that the national interest requires that microphone surveillance be utilized by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

I will not demean myself by being a common thief, stealing trivia from office filing cabinets, but I will give you the name of every general in Germany who wishes to see Hitler dead.... In the meantime, I will tell you when my friends are planning to assassinate the Fuhrer.

Everything I say and do, I assume that I am being spied on.

The times are such as ... to make it the duty of every friend of the country to keep a true lookout and if possible, discover and expose to the detestation of the world those traitors, who acting under foreign influences are plotting schemes destructive to the interests of their country.

I am committing high treason with all my might and means...

Convicted Spy!!! The penalty for all who associate with Auxiliary Cadets, Black and Tans and IRC — IRA Beware

The CIA is inhabited by ghosts.

I think you see a clear pattern of people in the Trump campaign coordinating with Russians.

For an old spy and codebreaker like myself, nothing in the world happens by coincidence.

Our rooms were bugged, our phones were tapped, and our lawyer's rooms were broken into and their files stolen. We finally had to hire armed guards with pistols to be able to maintain our records. It was hard to believe we weren't in Russia.

The trouble with conspiracies is that they rot internally.

I was trained in Army Intelligence, but spent most of my army career in the infantry. But like many people of my generation, I was very much caught up in the Cold War, and books and movies about espionage.

The members of our secret service have apparently spent so much time under the bed looking for communists that they haven't had the time to look in the bed.

Secrecy is a vacuum and nothing fills a vacuum like paranoid speculation.

When I was 12 years old, I was obsessed with codes, conspiracies, and secret messages. I would record TV commercials with SoundRecorder.exe on Windows 95 and reverse them to see if I was being subliminally influenced to watch Pokémon by Japanese spies.

One day I'm going to go up in a helicopter and it'll just blow up. MI5 will do away with me

I don't care if I pass your test, I don't care if I follow your rules. If you can cheat, so can I. I won't let you beat me unfairly - I'll beat you unfairly first. - Ender