More spies than soldiers, perhaps".
"The joke in those days was that there are more spies than soldiers in Vienna".
At the moment, there are more spies than athletes at the Olympic site, and the only record set has been the cost of security -- more than $1.4 billion and rising -- even though no intelligence agency has reported picking up any signal that Al Qaeda is planning to ruin the Games, which begin on Aug. 13.
Luckily for impatient fans, though, the set of the next season of the show has been beset with more spies than King's Landing.
"If I had been a more malevolent spy than I was," he is quoted as saying, "they would have had a very difficult time finding me".
"There are more spies in New York City than any other city," said the other man, H. Keith Melton, an intelligence historian and the author of "The Ultimate Spy: Inside the Secret World of Espionage" (DK Publishing, updated 2009).
The Patriot Act, in particular, has allowed more government spying than even its drafters realised.For example, before Mr Snowden's whistleblowing, few realised that Section 215 of the Patriot Act had a secret legal interpretation which justified the collection of "metadata" of phone calls made by hundreds of millions of Americans.
He was now on secondment to MI6, with its focus on foreign targets and intelligence-gathering, becoming more of a spy than a desk-bound technician, although Williams would shortly be called back to GCHQ to work on a new and ambitious project.
Putin went on to endorse Trump's view that the probe into Russia's involvement in the 2016 U.S. presidential election is no more than "spy hysteria" fabricated by Trump's political enemies.
Public photography is about much more than spying and surveillance.
