Elizabeth Hurley Quotes

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

From the outside, the CIA seems pretty exotic, but from the inside, it's a big, bureaucratic place. Think 'post office with spies.'

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.

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

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

I always liked spy stories.

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.

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.

Prior to the present war [WWII], the United States had no foreign intelligence service. It never has had and does not have a coordinated intelligence service.

Bureau of Secret Intelligence.

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

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

I spent over ten years in the Central Intelligence Agency as an undercover operations officer serving overseas after 9/11 where I carried out covert operations against al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups, as well as other countries who are 'hostile to liberty,' as I like to say.

Everybody thinks it's glamorous and this spy versus spy stuff is so exciting, but working in that industry and being a CIA operative, like a field officer, is tough. That's a difficult job that usually dismantles their lives in some capacity.

We can't spy on them if they aren't spying on us, now can we?" Warped logic, but okay.

When I was younger, I actually wanted to be a CIA agent. Really. I even did the online questionnaire.

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.

Ask yourself: if I were a Chinese spy, why wouldn't I have flown directly into Beijing? I could be living in a palace petting a phoenix by now.

Since that time I have had continuous contact with the persons who were completely unknown to me, except that I knew they would hand whatever information I gave them to the Russian authorities.

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

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 will always be spies. We have to have them. Without them we wouldn't have got Osama bin Laden - it took us years, but it happened.

The skills of the British intelligence community are a great national asset.

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.