William S. Cohen Quotes

The head of the CIA, it seems to me, would think long and hard before he admitted that former employees of his had been involved in the murder of the President of the United States-even if they weren't acting on behalf of the Agency when they did it.

Every department in Washington…contained numerous traitors and spies.

When I blew the whistle on the whole thing, it was [William J.] Casey who, I felt, regarded what I had done as treason.

Convicted Spy!!! The penalty for all who associate with Auxiliary Cadets, Black and Tans and IRC — IRA Beware

The CIA is inhabited by ghosts.

The Confederates had suspected Wild Bill of being a spy for two or three days, and had watched him closely.

Books about spies and traitors - and the congressional hearings that follow the exposure of traitors - generally assume that false-negative errors are much worse than false-positive errors.

They were conspiring to desert us in the night and steal some of our horses... we engaged a spy.

I handed over names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union.

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.

It had all the earmarks of a CIA operation; the bomb killed everybody in the room except the intended target!

Even a paranoid can have enemies.

In any war against Japan the USA will be perfectly helpless against the new organization of German spies in USA, which are already now supplying directly and indirectly Japan with all important military news, as until now it was very difficult for Japan to get such informations by their own staff. Many of these Pro-Japanese Pro- German spies are members of the different pro German societies f.i. Friends of new Germany etc etc These fellows are much more dangerous to USA than the worst Bolshevists...

Having watched the form of our traitors for a number of years, I cannot think that espionage can be recommended as a technique for building an impressive civilization. It's a lout's game.

I will not demean myself by being a common thief, stealing trivia from office filing cabinets, but I will give you the name of every general in Germany who wishes to see Hitler dead.... In the meantime, I will tell you when my friends are planning to assassinate the Fuhrer.

The Fifth Column.

… insidious traitors

For the better discovering and avoiding of all such traitorous and most dangerous conspiracies and attempts as are daily devised and practiced against our most gracious sovereign lady the queen's majesty and the happy estate of this commonweal, by sundry wicked and seditious persons, who, terming themselves Catholics, and being indeed spies and intelligencers, not only for her majesty's foreign enemies, but also for rebellious and traitorous subjects born within her highness's realms and dominions, and hiding their most detestable and devilish purposes under a false pretext of religion and conscience, do secretly wander and shift from place to place within this realm, to corrupt and seduce her majesty's subjects, and to stir them to sedition and rebellion …

If you set foot on your enemies' land, get spies on them. Choose those whom you count on for their truthfulness and advice, whether Arabs or inhabitants of that land. Liars' accounts would not benefit you, even if some of them were true; the deceiver is a spy against you and not for you.

The times are such as ... to make it the duty of every friend of the country to keep a true lookout and if possible, discover and expose to the detestation of the world those traitors, who acting under foreign influences are plotting schemes destructive to the interests of their country.

I am committing high treason with all my might and means...

There are more foreign intelligence officers inside the US now, working against US interests, than there were at the height of the cold war.

I think you see a clear pattern of people in the Trump campaign coordinating with Russians.

For a long time, I was an assistant in the NFL to George Allen, and George was paranoid that other teams were cheating on him... that they were offering bounties, that they were wiring our locker room, that they were putting food poisoning into the pregame meal of the other team's stars, stuff like that.

I do not agree with what Mr. Snowden did. He has damaged American international relations and compromised our national security. He leaked classified information and may have jeopardized human lives. That must be condemned.