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Espionage, for the most part, involves finding a person who knows something or has something that you can induce them secretly to give to you. That almost always involves a betrayal of trust. -- Aldrich Ames
I'm sort of fascinated by the whole espionage crime thing. -- Aaron Eckhart
We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage. -- Julian Assange
My name is E. Howard Hunt. I'm currently retired from more than 22 years in the profession of espionage. -- E. Howard Hunt
I found that our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet Union. -- Aldrich Ames
An espionage organization is a collector: it collects raw information. That gets processed by a machinery that is supposed to resolve its reliability, and to present a finished product. -- Aldrich Ames
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 he'd seen and done and been involved with. This is not really espionage; there's no betrayal of trust. -- Aldrich Ames
In many cases, Obama's exercise of authoritarian power is criminal. His executive branch is responsible for violations of the Arms Export Control Act in shipping weapons to Syria, the Espionage Act in Libya, and IRS law with regard to the targeting of conservative groups. -- Ben Shapiro
Espionage is the world's second oldest profession. -- Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius
The Obama administration has attempted to prosecute more journalists and journalistic sources under the same Espionage Act she was being investigated under in all previous presidencies combined. -- Julian Assange
All women are natural born espionage agents. -- Eddie Cantor
The best leaks always take place in the urinal. -- John Cole
There is no place where espionage is not possible. -- Sun Tzu
This is the wonderful thing about espionage, nothing exists any more. -- William Stephenson
The habits and language of clandestinity can intoxicate even its own practitioners. -- William Colby
Who would have thought that in the 1950s, Burbank was a hotbed of international espionage? -- Annie Jacobsen
The human spy, in terms of the American espionage effort, had never been terribly pertinent. -- Aldrich Ames
I've always had a great affection for espionage stories. I like weaving them, and I like thrillers. -- Terry Hayes
Generally speaking, espionage offers each spy an opportunity to go crazy in a way he finds irresistible. -- Kurt Vonnegut
I grew up reading the classic novels of Cold War espionage, and I studied Russian history and Soviet foreign policy. -- Daniel Silva
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
Mainly, when I go see a show, unfortunately it's more industrial espionage than it is going to actually enjoy a show. -- Hal Sparks
In civilizations without boats, dreams dry up, espionage takes the place of adventure and the police take the place of pirates. -- Michel Foucault
All warfare is based on deception. There is no place where espionage is not used. Offer the enemy bait to lure him. -- Sun Tzu
The difficulties of conducting espionage against the Soviet Union in the Soviet Union were such that historically the Agency had backed away from the task. -- Aldrich Ames
When you grow suspicious of a person and begin a system of espionage upon him, your punishment will be that you will find your suspicions true. -- Elbert Hubbard
Out of every 10 scripts I get sent, seven are fairly generic about an American guy who gets the girl and is involved in underground espionage activity. -- Jim Sturgess
In the case of Pakistan, the CIA actually used a fake vaccination campaign to try to locate Osama bin Laden, so now vaccination is associated with espionage. -- Eula Biss
Cyber attacks are not what makes the cool war 'cool.' As a strategic matter, they do not differ fundamentally from older tools of espionage and sabotage. -- Noah Feldman
The only reason that there has been no sabotage or espionage on the part of Japanese-Americans is that they are waiting for the right moment to strike. -- Earl Warren
It is getting to the point where the mark of international distinction and service to humanity is no longer the Nobel Peace Price, but an espionage indictment from the US Department of Justice. -- Julian Assange
If I could rub a genie and anything could happen? Truthfully, my other love, and this is a complete 180, but I'd love to do a spy or an espionage pic, like a James Bond movie. -- Chris Diamantopoulos
It is essential to seek out enemy agents who have come to conduct espionage against you and to bribe them to serve you. Give them instructions and care for them. Thus double agents are recruited and used. -- Sun Tzu
It is essential to seek out enemy agents who have come to conduct espionage against you and to bribe them to serve you. Give them instructions and care for them. Thus doubled agents are recruited and used. -- Sun Tzu
The Iraqi regime was supporting terrorist cells all over the world. We had to expel three Iraqi diplomats from the Philippines because of evidence that they were either in touch with Abu Sayyaf or doing their own espionage. -- Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
When you really study espionage movies, or spy movies, the beginnings are really set up to have, like, an amazing bit of action, but at the moment you're watching it, you have no idea why or what it's about. -- John Lasseter
When I accepted the commission, I had something of an epiphany in the research I did about the agency, actually the science of espionage. I realized there is a connection between the sciences and the invisible forces of man. -- James Sanborn
There are some who become spies for money, or out of vanity and megalomania, or out of ambition, or out of a desire for thrills. But the malady of our time is of those who become spies out of idealism. -- Max Lerner
I'd love to do a sci-fi movie, a western, or an espionage thriller. But I'm not going to limit myself. If a good script comes along, I'm not going to discount it because it doesn't fit into one of these genres. -- Park Chan-wook
My understanding is that espionage means giving secret or classified information to the enemy. Since Snowden shared information with the American people, his indictment for espionage could reveal (or confirm) that the US Government views you and me as the enemy. -- Ron Paul
Because there are little to no consequences for conducting cyberattacks, criminals and nation-states are becoming bolder in their threats and behavior. Russia, China, North Korea and Iran are increasingly hacking into U.S. companies and government networks for espionage purposes or financial gain. -- Michael McCaul
The Man Who Never Was,' by Ewen Montagu, remains the best book about wartime espionage written by an active participant - incomplete, and dry in parts, it nonetheless summons up the ingenuity and sheer eccentricity of those who played this strange and dangerous game. -- Ben Macintyre
In terms of the espionage, this is something I have talked to President Obama about. We don't want it to mar the relationship between Mexico and the United States. But it is unacceptable for a country to practice such espionage, especially if there is a good relationship with the other country. -- Enrique Pena Nieto
To charge Snowden with espionage is a severe form of political persecution. -- Mark Weisbrot
Indeed, the U.N. is the main Soviet espionage center in this country. -- Jack Anderson
You couldn't trust anyone or anything that belonged to the world of espionage. -- Anthony Horowitz
Kink isn't a crime; conspiring with a foreign power to commit espionage, fix election is. Stay focused. -- Justin Miller
[My novels] introduce levels of intelligence ... moral doubt [and] self-doubt, which may not pertain [to real-world espionage]. -- John le Carre
Spy' is such a short ugly word. I prefer 'espionage.' Those extra three syllables really say something. -- Howard Tayler
But I made him the Deputy Secretary for Homeland Security because that added an element of political espionage. -- Wes Craven
I cannot think that espionage can be recommended as a technique for building an impressive civilization. It's a lout's game. -- Rebecca West
I am a huge fan of Alan Furst. Furst is the best in the business--the most talented espionage novelist of our generation. -- Vince Flynn
Our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet Union. -- Aldrich Ames
Cyber attacks are not what makes the cool war cool. As a strategic matter, they do not differ fundamentally from older tools of espionage and sabotage. -- Noah Feldman
There are so many things a large intelligence espionage organization can do to justify its existence, that people can get promotions for, because it could result in results. -- Aldrich Ames
Richard Nixon was a Republican presidential candidate who encouraged crooks to commit espionage against the Democratic National Committee in order to gain an edge in a presidential election. -- Tim Kaine
Deception is a sort of seduction. In love and war, adultery and espionage, deceit can only succeed if the deceived party is willing, in some way, to be deceived. -- Ben Macintyre
It is ironic that Mr. Berger learned of this espionage in exactly the same month that Mr. Gore was attending his now famous fund-raiser with Buddhist nuns in Southern California. -- Lamar Alexander
Magic is used in espionage, all the time, for clandestine things. I've got a whole library from a gentleman who was hired by the CIA to create magic technology for the use of anti-terrorism. -- David Copperfield

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