Prince Andrew Quotes

The human spy, in terms of the American espionage effort, had never been terribly pertinent.

Intelligence without counter-intelligence is useless.

Spies are the ears and eyes of Princes.

Since real spies are so good, you never really know what actual spying is. But I do think spying is a lot more dangerous than we are led to believe.

From the outside, the CIA seems pretty exotic, but from the inside, it's a big, bureaucratic place. Think 'post office with spies.'

Espionage takes place in the world. Even we commit espionage.

It was given for all purposes to which a secret service fund should or could be applied to the public benefit—for spies, if the gentleman pleases.

What the Hell do those clowns do out there at Langley? Get the CIA jerks working on Cambodia.

We were bereft of any human intelligence—zero, nada, in terms of agents on the ground…. We had no answers.

Nobody [at the CIA] had any idea of who was doing what where

Bill Stephenson taught us all we ever knew about foreign intelligence.

Spies go undercover. They take on different personas.

Everybody has a hacking capability. And probably every intelligence service is hacking in the territory of other countries. But who exactly does what? That would be a very sensitive piece of information. But it's very difficult to communicate about it. Because nobody wants to admit the scope of what they're doing.

One of the things that distinguishes the CIA from the State Department is that the CIA is both asked to, and authorized to, steal secrets. So if the question is whether the CIA steals secrets, the answer is yes.

The members of the National Clandestine Service of the CIA are called the collectors of last resort. They are tasked to seek the truth when all other avenues of intelligence collection have failed.

Spies are a most important element in water, because on them depends an army's ability to move.

The necessity of procuring good Intelligence is apparent & need not be further urged-All that remains for me to add, is, that you keep the whole matter as secret as possible. For upon Secrecy, Success depends in most Enterprizes of the kind, and for want of it, they are generally defeated, however well planned & promising a favourable issue.

It's the oldest question of all, George. Who can spy on the spies?

You couldn't trust anyone or anything that belonged to the world of espionage.

All women are natural born espionage agents.

I love the spy genre.

SIS, the Secret Intelligence Service, also known as MI6, also has no executive powers and operates abroad on CIA lines, but with a tiny percentage of the budget and a tiny percentage of the personnel.

I've met enough KGB colonels in my life.

You could say that all novels are spy novels and all novelists are spy masters.

I saw a limit to what I was giving as kind of a scam I was running on the KGB, by giving them people that I knew were their double agents fed to us.