Intelligence Quote by Aldrich Ames

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

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

— 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

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

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.

— John F. Kennedy

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

— Anthony Horowitz

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

— Vladimir Putin

When I handed over the names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union, I had come to the conclusion that the…

— 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

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