Christopher A. Wray

Our adversaries - terrorists, foreign intelligence services, and criminals - take advantage of modern technology to hide their communications; recruit followers; and plan, conduct, and encourage espionage, cyber attacks, or terrorism to disperse information on different methods to attack the U.S. homeland and to facilitate other illegal activities.

American Public Servant

Chris Pavone

In most espionage novels, the characters risk their lives trying to save somebody or while protecting a nation from some threat. In 'The Travelers,' that's not what's going on. I used espionage as a device to heighten the characters' personal dramas.

American Novelist

Michael Hayden

I don't know if the European Union contributes a great deal to espionage. At the union level, they talk about commerce and privacy. But to keep citizens safe, that remains a responsibility back in national capitals.

Sun Tzu

It is essential to seek out enemy agents who have come to conduct espionage against you and to bribe them to serve you. Give them instructions and care for them. Thus doubled agents are recruited and used.

Chinese Philosopher

Elizabeth Debicki

That world of spies and espionage, there's a coldness to it. That's what makes those worlds fascinating - and what makes le Carre's work so interesting.

Australian Actress

John le Carre

Once you've lived the inside-out world of espionage, you never shed it. It's a mentality, a double standard of existence.

English Writer

Terry Hayes

I've always had a great affection for espionage stories. I like weaving them, and I like thrillers.

Dmitri Alperovitch

Cyber espionage is very lucrative for economic benefit to a nation.

Russian Businessman

Charles McCarry

Espionage and counterespionage go together like horse and carriage.

American Writer

Aaron Eckhart

I'm sort of fascinated by the whole espionage crime thing.

American Actor

Espionage involves secret missions, often to uncover sensitive information.

Hidden Operations

Espionage can be illegal, leading to arrest or severe penalties if caught.

Legal Risks

The term is often found in stories about politics, war, or international conflicts.

Political Thrillers

 and the clandestine agency couldn’t protect her if she was caught. Noor accepted her assignment immediately. While she was determined to take her pacifist principles as far as possible, Noor had to learn the art of espionage. She learned how to contact intelligence networks, pick a lock,

From pacifist to spy:...

 They compared Dreyfus's handwriting to that on the memo and concluded that it was a match, even though outside professional handwriting experts were much less confident in the similarity, but never mind that. They went and searched Dreyfus's apartment, looking for any signs of espionage.

Why you think you're...

 When the Cold War escalated and this espionage became known, domestic communism came to be seen as a threat to national security. But the attempt to eliminate that threat soon turned into the longest lasting and most widespread episode of political repression in American history.

What is McCarthyism? And...

 that are developing cyber-offensive capabilities, this is exactly what they are doing. They are recruiting hackers both before and after they become involved in criminal and industrial espionage activities -- are mobilizing them

Misha Glenny: Hire the...

 as if it were a scandal on par with political espionage. The players were suspended and had to repay the cash as well as the value of the tattoos. In effect, unpaid athletes were fined by a billion-dollar organization

The exploitation of US...

 a place where raw metal and designers dreams are transformed into finely honed vehicles a place of closely guarded trade secrets the fear industrial espionage this is where every new GM model begins its life

Electric Car in the...

 Now we live in a global economy. High-tech manufacturing is occurring on most continents. Cyber espionage is spiriting away advanced designs to parts unknown, and in that environment, it is very likely

Daniel Suarez: The kill...

 it was months before anyone even reported that these records were stolen. So if you watch the evening news, you would think that most of this is espionage or nation-state activity.

Where is cybercrime...

 You find the secret recipe and are gone before anyone’s the wiser. Corporate espionage is not an easy game— but sometimes, that’s just how the sausage is made.

Can you solve the secret...

 Some are much more crafty. When a secret agent virus infects a bacterium, they do a little espionage. Here, this cloaked, secret agent virus