Existence Quote by Aldrich Ames

Generally speaking, espionage offers each spy an opportunity to go crazy in a way he finds irresistible.

— Kurt Vonnegut

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

— William Stephenson

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 cannot think that espionage can be recommended as a technique for building an impressive civilization. It's a lout's game.

— Rebecca West

If the CIA is going to disrupt future terrorist attacks, it needs to recruit spies to infiltrate those groups in order to disrupt the…

— John Kiriakou

An espionage organization is a collector: it collects raw information. That gets processed by a machinery that is supposed to resolve its reliability, and…

— Aldrich Ames

“Langley bred a certain type of person with great intention. The human resources department required nearly as sophisticated of analysts as the foreign intelligence…

— Lynn Blackmar

“Allan Dulles said it best: "Any intelligence service worth its salt can make the other fellow's currency." In other words, every nation needs to…

— Antonio J. Mendez

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

“We have seen segments of our Government, in their attitudes and action, adopt tactics unworthy of a democracy, and occasionally reminiscent of totalitarian regimes.…

— Church Committee

“In some cases the intelligence community could subsidize commercial and academic sources to ensure specialized or additional expertise for surge situations. The key challenge…

— Bruce D. Berkowitz

Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior.

— Julian Assange