Secret Missions Quotes

I'm a spy. It's not really... I worked for the CIA 15 years. The cover was I worked for the insurance business.

Blackwater's work with the CIA began when we provided specialized instructors and facilities that the Agency lacked. In the years that followed, the company became a virtual extension of the CIA because we were asked time and again to carry out dangerous missions, which the Agency either could not or would not do in-house.

I spent a whole career infiltrating places.

Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.

I was never a spy. I was with the OSS organization. We had a number of women, but we were all office help.

What do you think spies are: priests, saints and martyrs? They're a squalid procession of vain fools, traitors too, yes; pansies, sadists and drunkards, people who play cowboys and Indians to brighten their rotten lives.

Let's just say I was in Special Forces and leave it at that. People can read into that what they like.

He was a secret agent, and still alive thanks to his exact attention to the detail of his profession.

Americans should not expect one battle, but a lengthy campaign, unlike any other we have ever seen. It may include dramatic strikes, visible on TV, and covert operations, secret even in success.

I’m really starting to like all this spy work,” Vee said. “When my normal life gets boring, all I have to do is sidle up next to you.

Thrilling, illuminating, heart-pounding. Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy reads like a crackling espionage novel and resonates as only the most compelling history can. Abbott brings to vivid life four extraordinary and audacious women, and runs glorious roughshod over all our traditional notions of the role of women in the Civil War.

Obviously, anyone who has seen Mr. and Mrs. Smith knows that husband and wife married spies is something that I find particularly interesting.

I am not a photojournalist and certainly not used to the Jason Bourne type stuff that some photographers have to deal with.

I wanted to be a secret agent and an astronaut, preferably at the same time.

Most of these missions weren’t sent for intelligence. They were sent to supply nonexistent or fictitious resistance groups. They were suicide missions. They were suicidal and irresponsible.

I've done quite a few gigs for the military. Some of them had to be kept under the wire. I'm a three year Army veteran myself, and I'm always available to do stuff like that. I've even done some things for the British military, too.

All women are natural born espionage agents.

Growing up, my dolls were doctors and on secret missions. I had Barbie Goes Rambo.

What is a Gallagher Girl? She's a genius, a scientist, a heroine, a spy... a Gallagher Girl is whatever she wants to be.

Now I feel like James Bond. Suave and intelligent, breaking all the codes while looking fabulous.

I think that is so interesting. It is le Carré. There must be so much of him when he was younger. He's an interesting character. I don't want to say the word "passive" because there is something very active about the way he is passive, if that makes any sense: the nature of his watching and his listening is active. It is always so alive because he is, essentially, a spy.

I think it's more difficult now to write a spy thriller with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Many authors have tried, but few have succeeded in capturing the interest of readers.

Instead of inventing imaginary friends, I invented whole imaginary worlds. They were elaborate scenarios about spies and adventurers and top secret missions. I crawled along my swing set, searching for escape routes from my maximum-security prison; I biked through the neighborhood, the wind in my hair and a fleet of evildoers on my heels.