Eccentricity Quote by Tom Clancy

Over the course of my career as an undercover officer in the C.I.A., I saw Russian intelligence manipulate many people. I never thought I…

— Will Hurd

I have no spy stories to tell, because I saw no spies. Nor did I understand, at that time, any opposition between American and…

— Elia Kazan

In American films, Russians are often portrayed like cartoon villains without clear motivations.

— Yuliya Snigir

“The Americans have their spies here, and we have our people over there. You, however, are not simply a spy. You’re a Soviet citizen—and…

— Natan Sharansky

“Russian espionage directed against the West has been rising since 2001. We kind of forgot that you don’t need communism to set up an…

— Charles Stross

I found that our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet…

— Aldrich Ames

“The Soviets were worried that the Americans would attack their "sparkling new Mir space station, ... in a space shuttle, throw out grappling hooks,…

— James Mahaffey

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 difficulties of conducting espionage against the Soviet Union in the Soviet Union were such that historically the Agency had backed away from the…

— Aldrich Ames

The problem is that I don't think the American people realize how much of our intelligence is actually derived from our partners. If our…

— Andrew Exum

Today's difference between Russia and the United States is that in Russia everybody takes everybody else for a spy, and in the United States…

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

Once you've lived the inside-out world of espionage, you never shed it. It's a mentality, a double standard of existence.

— John le Carre