Agency Quote by Luke Harding

What people don't seem to ever understand is that any infrastructure that exists under your regime, in your current government, will be appropriated and…

— Ted Rall

“First the FSB agent, and now the FBI. It was becoming a real alphabet soup of international espionage.”

— Kenneth Eade

When I cleared out Moscow apartment after stepping down as president, they found all kinds of wiring in the walls. It turned out that…

— Mikhail Gorbachev

I can absolutely tell you that the FSB are rigged up to collect as much compromising information against any target they consider to be…

— Andrei Soldatov

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

After the fall of Communism, the biggest mistake Boris Yeltzin's regime made was not to disband the KGB altogether. Instead it changed its name…

— Gerard Batten

Our rooms were bugged, our phones were tapped, and our lawyer's rooms were broken into and their files stolen. We finally had to hire…

— Jimmy Hoffa

I handed over names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union.

— Aldrich Ames

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

Since that time I have had continuous contact with the persons who were completely unknown to me, except that I knew they would hand…

— Klaus Fuchs

My four years in Russia end, then, in dramatic fashion: with a textbook Soviet-style expulsion. I am the first western staff correspondent to suffer…

— Luke Harding

“The oversight mechanism in the US may have been broken, but in Russia it didn’t exist.”

— Luke Harding