Books Quote by Ronald Kessler

Let's say a Soviet exchange student back in the '70s would go back and tell the KGB about people and places and things that…

— 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

My notion of the KGB came from romantic spy stories. I was a pure and utterly successful product of Soviet patriotic education.

— Vladimir Putin

The thing about the Russian secret police and the Soviet secret police is that one never leaves the secret police. Once a KGB man,…

— Masha Gessen

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

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

Perhaps my information hurt the Soviet Union more than it helped. I have no idea. It was not something I ever discussed with the…

— Aldrich Ames

I've been called a spy of Israel since 1996, and since I made my documentary film in 2000 the FBI has investigated me as…

— Scott Ritter

“paranoid, you said so in your notes. He knew the KGB and MVD were watching him in Minsk, and he’s going to be afraid…

— Stephen King

[ James Comey] was acting in concert and coordination with the House Republicans. End of story. He gave a letter to them. They gave…

— James Carville

“A high-level government agent was arrested today for selling secrets to Russia. They now have all of the exact locations of our back-to-school headquarters.”

— David Letterman

And one of the things that I'm most concerned about is the confidence, the confidentiality of those kind of meetings between President and Russian…

— H. R. McMaster