Sentence examples for espionage business from inspiring English sources

An extraordinary amount of British espionage business was still conducted in London's clubland.

As Olmsted reports, the Russians soon became dissatisfied with Bentley's tradecraft; they tried to ease her out of the espionage business, which essentially meant wrecking her life.

If we think back to less neurotic, less navel-gazing decades, we might recall that in the very first 007 movie, "Dr No", James Bond had already been in the espionage business for years.

"SPY GAME" Ready to retire from the international espionage business, a C.I.A. agent (Robert Redford) is called back on the job when it appears that his protégé, Brad Pitt, has gone over to the dark side.

Deception and deceit become forms of truth in the espionage business, and suspicion eventually develops into paranoia as the war against the Nazis is replaced by the Cold War and the CIA's tentacles reach everywhere.

"Notorious," with its intricate entangling of perverse love and espionage business, is the obvious influence (possibly even for Chang, an occasional film critic who wrote screenplays for Hong Kong's Cathay Studios in the '50s and '60s).

And it is the booming private-espionage business that forms the backdrop of a new eight-part BBC1 action series, Hunted, which has been made by the makers of Spooks, independent production company Kudos, and created by the chief writer of The X-Files, American scribe Frank Spotnitz.

"I suspect even the K.G.B. is flirting with dilettantes," said Ms. Moses, musing on what a farcical business espionage has become.

One thing that even Donovan failed to appreciate was that the United States was relatively inexperienced at a business — espionage and covert political warfare — that its Cold War enemy had been in for three hundred years.

These days, Chinese military and business espionage experts are trying to uncover America's secrets.

French carmaker Renault has said that suspected industrial espionage against its business poses a serious threat to its "strategic assets".