Gijs de Vries Quotes

Oh, I can keep many secrets, so I would be a phenomenal secret agent. I love secrets.

Most of the secrets the CIA has are about people, not machines and systems, so I didn't feel comfortable with disclosures that I thought could endanger anyone.

I value my ability to keep state secrets.

Now that you have the Xerox machine, you can't keep many secrets.

Everybody spies on everybody.

Our agency (the Central Intelligence Agency) is the last refuge of organizational privacy available to the U. S. Government.

I am unable to tell a quarter of a billion Americans what we are doing on their behalf, because if I did, it would become the table of contents of the training manual of the enemy.

If you are completely transparent, then you have no intelligence service.

I was working for the CIA and prohibited from speaking publicly.

I've got nothing to hide.

No one ever confides a secret to one person only. No one destroys all copies of a document.

Of course, a secret is no good if it doesn't need to be a secret.

People have given me classified information, but always with the disclaimer 'This can never end up in a book.' And it never does.

I will not, nor will I ever, publicly divulge sensitive intelligence sources and methods. For when that happens, our national security is endangered and lives can be lost.

If you think you might have secret information listening to me, you're lost.

Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state.

Nothing is secret once you tell anyone. If you want to keep it quiet - don't tell a soul.

I didn't use to think anything was worth keeping private. Now I do.

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

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.

The safety and security of the nation depends more so than ever before on intelligence.

It is not a secret if it is known by three people.

They keep their own secrets alike from foe and friends

Nothing on paper; paper can be lost or stolen or simply inherited by the wrong people; if you want to keep something secret, don't write it down.

If we cannot keep secrets, it is impossible for our leaders to have the adequate information on which to base their policies.