Aldrich Ames Quotes

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.

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

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.

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.

You can probably forgive the top spy for lying about spying. Lying is part of the job description. It’s what spies do.

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.

I am always up to steal secrets from smart people.

I've known several spies who have wanted to become novelists. And novelists who became spies, of course.

The creation of George Smiley, the retired spy recalled to hunt for just such a high-ranking mole in 'Tinker, Tailor,' was extremely personal. I borrowed elements of people I admired and invested them in this mythical character. I'm such a fluent, specious person now, but I was an extremely awkward fellow in those days.

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.

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.

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.

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

I had been given some training in my past CIA career to do just this sort of thing ... floating forged newspaper accounts, telegrams, that sort of thing.

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

I excelled in finding and acquiring secret information that I obtained in brush passes, dead drops, or in meetings in dusty alleys of third world capitals.

Exposing the activities of a foreign intelligence service renders them ineffective, since it removes plausible deniability, which is the hallmark of covert intelligence operations.

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

Janie: So you're a double agent? Cabel: Sure.That sounds sexy.

Charles Kiss is a legendary James Bond-style British spy. And McGrath is the young idealist who is given the task of following in his footsteps. It's a mission that forces McGrath to question everything he thought he believed in.

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

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

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