Action Quote by Lynn Blackmar

Everybody thinks it's glamorous and this spy versus spy stuff is so exciting, but working in that industry and being a CIA operative, like…

— Ryan Reynolds

There are so many things a large intelligence espionage organization can do to justify its existence, that people can get promotions for, because it…

— Aldrich Ames

The CIA in real life, we know, is looking for new kinds of cover. It's looking for new platforms, as they like to say,…

— David Ignatius

I couldn't get a job with CIA today. I am not qualified.

— Porter Goss

From the outside, the CIA seems pretty exotic, but from the inside, it's a big bureaucratic place. Think 'post office with spies.'

— Barry Eisler

“manage the community outside of the CIA. An official observed, “The CIA director managed the CIA; it was the best job in the world.…

— Michael Allen

“Detective Sergeant Jonathan Searle, a Cambridge-educated art historian who worked at Special Branch, the muscle behind British intelligence on national security and espionage.”

— Laney Salisbury

“And while the black women are the most hidden of the mathematicians who worked at the NACA, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, and…

— Margot Lee Shetterly

I've always wanted to be a spy, and frankly I'm a little surprised that British intelligence has never approached me.

— Elizabeth Hurley

I was with the CIA for only three years. I worked in the Directorate of Operations, which is now called the National Clandestine Service.…

— Barry Eisler

“Intellectual curiosity was not one of the motives on the FBI’s list. Indeed, the whole concept seemed foreign to them. Those in authority tend…

— Paul Graham

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

— Rebecca West