Intelligence Network Quotes

If we look in the right places at the right times, we can begin to glimpse America's vast intelligence infrastructure.

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.

I spent close to a decade as an undercover officer in the CIA and have spent most of my adult life collecting intelligence and protecting sources and methods.

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

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.

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

A chief of station is the head of all intelligence operations in any given country.

We have a complicated intelligence relationship with France. We have a complicated intelligence relationship with other - with other allies.

My personal sources in the intelligence community and the military are very good. They're excellent. I have very high-up, in-depth sources.

Since 1955, the U.K. has been part of an intelligence-sharing arrangement with the U.S., Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Intelligence-sharing is, in itself, commonplace.

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.

My name is E. Howard Hunt. I'm currently retired from more than 22 years in the profession of espionage.

…in time of peace the bulk of intelligence can be obtained through overt channels… It can also be obtained…through the many Americans, business and professional men and American residents of foreign countries, who are naturally and normally brought in touch with what is going on in those countries.

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

The Secret Intelligence Service I knew occupied dusky suites of little rooms opposite St James's Park Tube station in London.

The dirty little secret of the intelligence world is that much of what you really need to know isn't exactly a secret anyway.

I've had nothing to do with the intelligence world since I left it, in any shade or variety.

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.

Counterintelligence is, in effect, chasing ghosts, which is why the tools used to investigate foreign intelligence activity are secret, like human sources or electronic surveillance.

Bureau of Secret Intelligence.

The simple truth is that the inspectors will never find anything the location of which has not been discovered through intelligence operations.

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

The Queen's intelligence network is a hell of a lot better than anyone's in this palace. Bar none. She knows everything. I don't know how she does it. And she sees everything.

I had brought up from Chile a contract agent whose cover was that of a newspaper publisher in Santiago, a young, very talented man, named Dave Phillips, who later on carved quite a career for himself in the agency.

To me, this is not an information age. It's an age of networked intelligence, it's an age of vast promise.