Information Quote by Robert David Steele

“In Open Secrets an intelligence operator has for the first time offered an insight into the working of the prime intelligence organisation of India—the…

— Maloy Krishna Dhar

“Here's the bottom line: The secret world of intelligence--at least in the United States of America--represents everything wrong with the government, the industrial era,…

— Robert David Steele

“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

I was never a spy. I was with the OSS organization. We had a number of women, but we were all office help.

— Julia Child

“A big part of becoming a spy is learning all the secrets that are used to keep things under wraps. A spy has to…

— P.D. Adler

“Espionage is the world's second oldest profession.”

— Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius

There aren't enough secrets to go round anymore. Some spies are having to invent secrets in order to earn a living.

— Shelagh Delaney

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

“That wasn't like spying. Any fool can spy. A spy has a clean, exciting life. But try and spend ten years in a hard…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I've long maintained during my 50-plus year career in intelligence that leaks endanger national security, they compromise sources, methods, and tradecraft, and they can…

— James Clapper

I invented the historical spy novel.

— Alan Furst

[My novels] introduce levels of intelligence ... moral doubt [and] self-doubt, which may not pertain [to real-world espionage].

— John le Carre