American Quote by 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

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 handed over names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union.

— 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

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

Amazingly, quite a few people, even some American conservatives, are taken in by Russian tactics.

— Anne Applebaum

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

— Vladimir Putin

Obviously, you have the DNC engaged in communication with lots of different parties, and anything you can use to gain intelligence about what's going…

— Dmitri Alperovitch

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

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

“Clancy comments that the subtleties of national character can impact the world stage by making espionage more difficult. Americans were quirky by nature, making…

— Tom Clancy

I would have loved to have met some former spies, but they don't readily advertise themselves unless they're not living in Moscow, and even…

— Jeremy Northam