Betrayal Quote by Aldrich Ames

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

— Vladimir Putin

The only thing I ever withheld from the KGB were the names of two agents whom I personally had known and handled and had…

— Aldrich Ames

Espionage, for the most part, involves finding a person who knows something or has something that you can induce them secretly to give to…

— Aldrich Ames

One of my books, called 'Moscow Station,' revealed that a KGB archivist had defected from Russia to the FBI. And I knew that he…

— Ronald Kessler

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

— Anthony Horowitz

The thing about the Russian secret police and the Soviet secret police is that one never leaves the secret police. Once a KGB man,…

— Masha Gessen

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

I found that our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet…

— Aldrich Ames

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

— William Stephenson

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

There are Russian spies here now. And if we're lucky, they'll steal some of our secrets and they'll be two years behind.

— Mort Sahl

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