“I feel that I, and the people under my command, tried to use all the traditional methods of recruiting agents which were also used by other intelligence services; adopting also means like pressure, money, sex - but that did not characterize my service.”
Markus Wolf
Tags: Adopting | Agents | Also | Characterize | Command | Did | Feel | Intelligence | Means | Methods | Money | Other | Pressure | Recruiting | Service | Services | Sex | Traditional | Tried | Under | Use | Used | Were | Which
54% of people like this quote
Markus Wolf
Author details
Related authors
Other Markus Wolf Quotes
There were some tragic cases of women whose love was abused, who for a certain time procured important documents or information, not knowing who for, what service they worked for, and for a variety reasons got jailed, were tried and sentenced.
Markus Wolf
58% of people like this quote
Making use of human weaknesses in intelligence work is a logical matter. It keeps coming up, and of course you try to look at all the aspects that interest you in a human being.
Markus Wolf
58% of people like this quote
At our college we were taught a universal approach to find out about a person: what problems the person has, what difficulties, what personal tendencies and likings.
Markus Wolf
57% of people like this quote
Most of the results of using technical bugging devices were of little importance for my service. It may have been different in counter-intelligence, where bugs in flats, etc., were used to obtain a lot of information about what counter-intelligence was interested in.
Markus Wolf
57% of people like this quote