Spies Quotes
The Queen addressed him with the moniker, My Ubiquitous Eyes. He in turn 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.
Traitors and spies were their terms for Southern sympathizers in the Federal Government. Many of these would pass information to the rebels.
The then CIA Director, Allen Dulles, fostered a practice of “adjusting” intelligence reports to support ideological policies and theories that were then in vogue. The agents in the field knew what was wanted and many adjusted their reports to coincide with the overall intelligence and policy. The station chiefs and other supervisors often ignored reports of their agents that they knew were not exactly accurate. Copeland however, just fabricated reports and “information” from sources. The honesty and integrity of the CIA intelligence operations have varied from time to time and depended much on the CIA Director at the time. Allen Dulles, though brilliant and able, fostered an ideological intelligence agency. He even went so far as to lie to the President on several occasions.
After the Confederate defeat at Roanoake Island, Norfolk, VA, in January, 1862:
See Lyndon Johnson's remark about J. Edgar Hoover for a modern extrapolation.
The 1st the CIA ever had. Popov was, in the 1950s, considered the CIA’s most valuable agent. He was motivated by deeply felt anger at Soviet exploitation of Russian peasants, including his family. He was caught and executed by Russian authorities in 1960. The quotation illustrates just how simple was his initial communication for spying.
Then a Senator and defending the administration's use of an unvouchered Secret Service fund:
The first two would often interfere with the operations.
The potential spies I interviewed after WWII were He was one of the earliest employees of the CIA. He was assigned to interview all the characters from Eastern Europe in including Russia who were offering their services to the Americans to spy on the Russians whose troops and puppet communist governments were controlling most of the area. Unfortunately, most of these volunteers were just trying to save their skins or settle scores and had served the Nazis and often committed murder and other war crimes themselves. None the less, the CIA used many of them. See {635149}.
He was a very large, heavy set man, and he wanted the Turk to know that he had strong connections in America. The Turks had made the mistake of allying themselves with Germany in WWI, but as thinks were not going very well for the Germans in the war, the Turkish leadership did not want to needlessly offend the United States. Aaronsohn was not hanged.
When Franklin was representing America in Paris during the American Revolution he was regarded by the British as a major threat since he was so popular with the French. They surrounded him with spies and even conscripted his private secretary in an effort to determine state secrets and/or get material which could be used against Franklin. He was notoriously careless with documents and was constantly warned by friends to be more careful and maintain more secrecy:
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.
