Undercover activities Quotes

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.

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

The great strength of our Order lies in its concealment; let it never appear in any place in its own name but always covered by another name and another occupation. None is fitter than the three lower degrees of Freemasonry; the public is accustomed to it, expects little from it and therefore takes little notice of it.

We have got a CIA station just up the road – the consulate here in Hong Kong – and I am sure they are going to be busy for the next week. And that is a concern I will live with for the rest of my life, however long that happens to be.

Be subtle! be subtle! and use your spies for every kind of business.

The one thing you can bet is that spying is never over. Spying is like the wiring in this building: It's just a question of who takes it over and switches on the lights. It will go on and on and on.

There is no place where espionage is not possible.

I hear it said of somebody that he is leading a double life. I think to myself: Just two?

I cannot think that espionage can be recommended as a technique for building an impressive civilization. It's a lout's game.

In fact, he [George Michael] was loitering in public loos like some pre-war homosexual. It's one thing to keep quiet. It's another to pretend you're someone you're not.

I'm not a spy for Russia or China or any other country for that matter.

Signs cannot be represented, in a spy's report, so damningly as words.

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.

Daniel supposed he had a secret life. Most people did; it was hardly possible to live without one.

So this was how secrets got started, I thought to myself. People constructed them little by little.

A person who searched rooms, brandished pistols, dangled promises of half a million franc fees for nameless services and then wrote instructions to Polish spies might reasonably be regarded with suspicion. But suspicion of what?

Retrenchment president’s often like covert action. It’s cheaper. It’s secret.

Gabrielle turned to Colm. “These men will be of interest to you.” Colm looked them over. “Why is that?” he asked. With her back to the infidels, she whispered, “They like to dig holes.

They need to review this secret world. We have an incredibly powerful government that gets on automatic pilot.

Generally speaking, espionage offers each spy an opportunity to go crazy in a way he finds irresistible.

The Ninja, as you know, operates by stealth. And so, case in point: I put out records... no one hears them! I make videos... (whispers) no one sees! I go on tour.... (whispers) no one knows! NINJA! I was never here!

We read about secret lives that people have on the Internet, or alternate lives of a serial killer where the whole family didn't know that their dad or their brother or their child was that. There are all the things in our heart that no one really knows, and I thought that that was interesting territory to explore.