Mordechai Vanunu Quotes

On 30 June 2010, the FSB broke into my office again. They unplugged the Internet, opened the window and left the phone off the hook, placing it next to my laptop. The message was clear: we are still here.

The man in gray decided to take the Glen Suite of diamonds at midnight. Provided they were still in the apartment safe and the occupants away. This he needed to know. So he watched and he waited. At half past seven he was rewarded.

The fact is that a car used by Gerry Adams and myself during the course of the Mitchell review was bugged by elements within British military intelligence.

Keep an eye on him who enters announcing that what he asks is secret

Mr. Vice President, it looks like this. I smuggled this into your office.

You can't be a real spy and have everybody in the world know who you are and what your drink is. That's just hysterically funny.

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

If I was a spy, I would have a watch that would cloak me in invisibility.

Excellent." Captain nods. "Cabel. What's your job?" Watching in agony, sir." Captain suppressed a smile. "I'd make you stay home if I didn't know you'd sneak out, anyway. while you are watching in agony, feel free to take note of anyone who comes or goes that's not on the list.

The king hath note of all that they intend, by interception which they dream not of.

I believe that any violation of privacy is nothing good.

Burglars know there's more than one way to skin a vault.

Glass is the world's worst spy camera. If you want to surreptitiously take photos, I would not use Glass.

We demand privacy, yet we glorify those that break into computers.

To get into Afghanistan, I bribed my way into a camel caravan of smugglers.

Of-course we did, but we didn't reply because we knew once this leaks the others will scatter, so in the few days we moved quickly before the press got hold of it. The press did get hold of it a few days later, we nabbed, we were able to get 15, the others got away.

I'll talk to kids afterward and somebody will always say, 'I'll leave my bedroom window open for you.

I knew quite well, when I gave the names of our agents in the Soviet Union, that I was exposing them to the full machinery of counterespionage and the law, and then prosecution and capital punishment.

In L.A. you hear all these stories of people being filmed in their own homes through their windows. I think that is so scary.

And I also take photos of hydrogen bomb, from another part of the building. It was not part of my job, but I succeeded to go and take photos of the hydrogen bomb.

Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.

I really did sneak into Broadway shows, starting when I was 12.

I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier?

Most of the results of using technical bugging devices were of little importance for my service. It may have been different in counter-intelligence, where bugs in flats, etc., were used to obtain a lot of information about what counter-intelligence was interested in.