Gina Haspel Quotes

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

With stealth technology, the U.S. could spy on its Cold War adversaries without running the risk of getting caught.

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.

The world of spying is my genre. My struggle is to demystify, to de-romanticise the spook world, but at the same time harness it as a good story.

There are few archbishops in espionage. He's on our side and that's all that matters. Besides, one needn't ask him to one's club.

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

Breaking a cardinal rule of spy craft, I actually let it be known that I wanted to work for the CIA.

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

You could say that all novels are spy novels and all novelists are spy masters.

The Secret Intelligence Service I knew occupied dusky suites of little rooms opposite St James's Park Tube station in London.

For something that's supposed to be secret, there is a lot of intelligence history. Every time I read one book, two more are published.

What I really found was that the one similarity between 'Covert Affairs' and 'Fair Game' is a deep love and admiration and fascination with the home life of a spy.

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.

During the Cold War, we gathered information by listening to the Soviets, taking pictures of the Soviets, and we allowed our human intelligence to decline.

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

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

Spying has always gone on since ancient times.

…historically, the official personnel of the Soviet bloc countries assigned to this nation, including those at the United Nations, have been used extensively for espionage purposes…

Espionage takes place in the world. Even we commit espionage.

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

It was given for all purposes to which a secret service fund should or could be applied to the public benefit—for spies, if the gentleman pleases.

The simple truth is that the inspectors will never find anything the location of which has not been discovered through intelligence operations.

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

The intelligence community is built, resourced, designed, trained, and focused around secrecy. We try to obtain the secrets of our adversaries and we try and keep secret how we are doing so.

Bill Stephenson taught us all we ever knew about foreign intelligence.