Cia Agents Quotes

• We need spies that look like their targets, CIA officers who speak the dialects terrorists use, and FBI agents who can speak to Muslim women who might be intimidated by men.

  Jane Harman

  Men, Fbi Agents, Spy

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• It used to be just CIA agents with ear-pieces who walked round with preoccupied, faraway expressions, and consequently regarded all the little people as irrelevant scum. Now, understandably, it's nearly everybody.

  Lynne Truss

  Expression, People, Pieces

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• People went out there and they wrote articles and went on television shows saying that I am an operative that the CIA who used Jon Stewart to recruit me. So Jon Stewart, who actually - a guy from America was used by the CIA in order to recruit me for the CIA and be - make me a CIA agent to use sarcasm to bring down the government and bring down the country because this was all, of course, part of a worldwide conspiracy against the country.

  Bassem Youssef

  Country, Sarcasm, Government

  "Egyptian Jon Stewart' Bassem Youssef Will Now Satirize U.S. Democracy". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 3, 2016.

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• Theres no hope, none, of ever talking about it without pissing somebody, if not everybody, off...By the end of this hour I will be seen by many as a terrorist sympathizer, a Zionist tool. A self-hating Jew, an apologist for American imperialism, an orientalist, socialist, fascist, CIA agent, and worse.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Hate, Self, Talking

  "Anthony Bourdain Talks Travel, Food, and War". Interview with John Little, blogsofwar.com. July 20, 2014.

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• 40 million Russians are convinced that I am a scoundrel, a thief, a criminal or a CIA agent, who deserves to be shot, hanged or drawn and quartered.

  Anatoly Chubais

  Criminals, Thieves, Scoundrels

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The fact is, psychiatric help is not widely available to CIA agents - and as in the military, there is a stigma attached to admitting post-traumatic stress.

  Michael Hastings

  Military, Stress, Admitting

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

  Aldrich Ames

  Names, Unions, Soviet Union

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• The CIA agent looked more dead than alive. Alex wondered if he had been hit, but there was no sign of any blood. Perhaps he was in shock.

  Anthony Horowitz

  Blood, Alex, Alive

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• You can say that I lived in Asia for a long time and in Japan I became close to several CIA agents. And you could say that I became an adviser to several CIA agents in the field and, through my friends in the CIA, met many powerful people and did special works and special favors.

  Steven Seagal

  Powerful, Japan, Long

  "Steven Seagal Gets a Shot at Stardom". Interview with Patrick Goldstein, articles.latimes.com. February 14, 1988.

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• I think that American presidents, that position in itself, as well as American foreign policy, it has terrorism in it. CIA agents going to overthrow certain governments - they're using terrorist tactics. They're not going in there like, 'Hey, you wanna have some cake?'

  Lupe Fiasco

  Thinking, Government, Cake

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