Army Quote by Nelson DeMille

For years before my Navy enlistment, I had studied the Soviet Union and the KGB's history of political intrigue in preparation for a career…

— Malcolm Nance

I spent close to a decade as an undercover officer in the CIA and have spent most of my adult life collecting intelligence and…

— Will Hurd

I grew up reading the classic novels of Cold War espionage, and I studied Russian history and Soviet foreign policy.

— Daniel Silva

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

I spent almost a decade as an undercover officer in the CIA. I was the guy in the back alleys at four o'clock in…

— Will Hurd

I joined the CIA in 1985 as an operations officer in the Clandestine Service.

— Gina Haspel

I was initially recruited while I was in business school back in the late sixties by the National Security Agency, the nation's largest and…

— John Perkins

I got a top-secret security clearance and served in the CIA.

— Todd Wilcox

I wrote 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold' at the age of 30 under intense, unshared personal stress and in extreme privacy.…

— John le Carre

I had been involved in U.S. intelligence in Berlin, Germany, while in the military and had worked with a contact with the Central Intelligence…

— George J. Mitchell

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

— Elizabeth Hurley

When I was younger, I actually wanted to be a CIA agent. Really. I even did the online questionnaire.

— Lizzy Caplan