Economic Quote by Aldrich Ames

Our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet Union.

— Aldrich Ames

Both cyber and old-fashioned human-intelligence industrial espionage has occurred for decades without any significant retribution by the United States.

— Robert C. O'Brien

The difficulties of conducting espionage against the Soviet Union in the Soviet Union were such that historically the Agency had backed away from the…

— Aldrich Ames

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

— Aldrich Ames

Once you've lived the inside-out world of espionage, you never shed it. It's a mentality, a double standard of existence.

— John le Carre

I have no spy stories to tell, because I saw no spies. Nor did I understand, at that time, any opposition between American and…

— Elia Kazan

Let's say a Soviet exchange student back in the '70s would go back and tell the KGB about people and places and things that…

— Aldrich Ames

“Russian espionage directed against the West has been rising since 2001. We kind of forgot that you don’t need communism to set up an…

— Charles Stross

This is the wonderful thing about espionage, nothing exists any more.

— William Stephenson

For years before my Navy enlistment, I had studied the Soviet Union and the KGB's history of political intrigue in preparation for a career…

— Malcolm Nance

My notion of the KGB came from romantic spy stories. I was a pure and utterly successful product of Soviet patriotic education.

— Vladimir Putin

You couldn't trust anyone or anything that belonged to the world of espionage.

— Anthony Horowitz