Stendhal Quotes
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy's report, so damningly as words.
Stendhal. The Charterhouse of Parma. Translated by C. K. Scott Moncrieff, Chatto & Windus, 1925, p. 182.
These appear in much of her correspondence to Dee. In acknowledgement of the second, Dee signed his letters and reports to the Queen with two zeros (representing his eyes) and the numeral 7 which at the time in numerology was the number of mystery. Many believe that the James Bond moniker of ‘007’ derives from England’s original great secret agent and superspy who the queen would allow almost anything.
The latter phrase means bribe servants to spy and be agents. The State Department and the CIA were rolled into one in Ancient India. Manava Dharma Shastra. This text is a part of the Hindu Holy Texts. Hindus believe that Manu was a prophet whose text is revealed or inspired.
Reinhard Gehlen was a vicious, fanatical Nazi intelligence officer who offered his files, men and services to Allen Dulles in Germany at the end of World War II. Dulles accepted the offer despite much criticism:
Then a Senator and defending the administration's use of an unvouchered Secret Service fund:
Precursor to CIA. Stephenson was the British leading intelligence and espionage expert who served as the Intelligence Advisor to Winston Churchill in WWII. He was very forthcoming in teaching Donavan and the new OSS much of what they learned about spy-craft and intelligence operations.
Marie-Henri Beyle, better known by his pen name Stendhal (UK: /ˈstɒ̃dɑːl/, US: /stɛnˈdɑːl, stænˈ-/; French: [stɛ̃dal, stɑ̃dal]), was a 19th-century French writer. Best known for the novels Le Rouge et le Noir (The Red and the Black, 1830) and La Chartreuse de Parme (The Charterhouse of Parma, 1839), he is highly regarded for the acute analysis of his characters' psychology and considered one of the early and foremost practitioners of realism.
