Intelligence Officer

🇺🇸Ion Mihai Pacepa

Military

1928–2021

"Throughout my years in Romania, I always took my KGB bosses with a grain of salt, because they used to juggle the facts around so as to make Soviet intelligence the mother and father of everything."

"I think, that it is our common duty from now on to stop Chinese penetration of the international Communist movement and in relation to Western powers to show China as the main present and future troublemaker."

🇺🇸George Tenet

Education

b. 1953

"We don't torture people. Let me say that again to you. We don't torture people, OK."

🇺🇸John O. Brennan

Politics

b. 1955

"As far as the allegations of the CIA hacking into Senate computers, nothing could be further from the truth, ... We wouldn’t do that. I mean, that’s just beyond the, you know, the scope of reason in terms of what we do."

🇷🇺Edward Snowden

Entertainment

b. 1983

"If I were a Chinese spy, why wouldn't I have flown directly into Beijing? I could be living in a palace petting a phoenix by now."

🇩🇪Wilhelm Canaris

Military

1887–1945

"As the officer before the World War was naturally a monarchist...so it is naturally understandable today...to be a National Socialist...The Wehrmacht has become the tool of the National Socialist will for development."