Counterespionage Quotes

The times are such as ... to make it the duty of every friend of the country to keep a true lookout and if possible, discover and expose to the detestation of the world those traitors, who acting under foreign influences are plotting schemes destructive to the interests of their country.

What good does it do to spend millions to protect ourselves against espionage if our secrets just leak away.

Go ahead and investigate the bastards.

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

I am dogged and watched in the most extraordinary manner.

Hitherto acceptable norms of human conduct do not apply. If the United States is to survive, long-standing American concepts of 'fair play' must be reconsidered. We must develop effective espionage and counterespionage services and must learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies by more clever, more sophisticated, and more effective methods than those used against us. It may become necessary that the American people be made acquainted with, understand and support this fundamentally repugnant philosophy.

Espionage and counterespionage go together like horse and carriage.

I knew quite well, when I gave the names of our agents in the Soviet Union, that I was exposing them to the full machinery of counterespionage and the law, and then prosecution and capital punishment.

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

The FBI is unique in that it straddles both law enforcement and counterintelligence.