Quote by Charles Stross

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 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

“Clancy comments that the subtleties of national character can impact the world stage by making espionage more difficult. Americans were quirky by nature, making…

— Tom Clancy

[Russians would like to] undermine the West and its institutions, create doubts about NATO, create doubts about the European Union, support nationalists on the…

— Daniel Fried

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

“The Americans have their spies here, and we have our people over there. You, however, are not simply a spy. You’re a Soviet citizen—and…

— Natan Sharansky

Behind the mask of diplomatic and political cooperation and partnership with the United States and Europe, the current Russian leaders are following the strategy…

— Anatoliy Golitsyn

“The communist regime in the East could stand and grow due to the enthusiastic support from an enormous number of Western intellectuals who felt…

— Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

The Cold War may be 'over' for the West. For the Soviets it has entered a new, active and promising phase.

— Anatoliy Golitsyn

I think it's more difficult now to write a spy thriller with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Many authors have tried, but few…

— Nelson DeMille

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

Indeed, the U.N. is the main Soviet espionage center in this country.

— Jack Anderson