Abroad Quote by John le Carre

The Secret Intelligence Service I knew occupied dusky suites of little rooms opposite St James's Park Tube station in London.

— John le Carre

The dirty little secret of the intelligence world is that much of what you really need to know isn't exactly a secret anyway.

— Peter Bergen

On Foreign Secretary Robin Cook: If a man cannot keep a measly affair secret, what is he doing in charge of the Intelligence Service?

— Frederick Forsyth

Everybody has a hacking capability. And probably every intelligence service is hacking in the territory of other countries. But who exactly does what? That…

— Henry Kissinger

Regarding Wikileaks, I have profound ambivalent feelings about it. I am a firm believer in a strong intelligence service. There's a need for classified…

— Valerie Plame

The aim of a foreign intelligence service is to find and convince individuals to help them achieve intelligence objectives.

— Asha Rangappa

The Germans certainly - the intelligence service believed that there were WMD. It turns out that we were all wrong, probably in my judgment,…

— David Kay

“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

There's no such thing as going to a soapbox and saying, 'The government's corrupt,' and not having the intelligence service see your face. In…

— Bill Gates

An intelligence service is, in fact, a stupidity service.

— E B White

“The dirty little secret of the intelligence-gathering job is that information doesn’t just want to be free—it wants to hang out on street corners…

— Charles Stross

“Put in the bluntest possible terms, what I discovered was that the U.S. secret intelligence community was collecting only information it considered secret, while…

— Robert David Steele