Richard Sorge - Quotes

Quotes

  • "A devastating example of a brilliant success of espionage." - Douglas MacArthur, General of the Army
  • "His work was impeccable." - Kim Philby
  • "In my whole life, I have never met anyone as great as he was." - Mitsusada Yoshikawa, Chief Prosecutor in the Sorge trials who obtained Sorge's death sentence.
  • "Sorge was the man whom I regard as the most formidable spy in history." - Ian Fleming
  • "Richard Sorge was the best spy of all time." - Tom Clancy
  • "The spy who changed the world." - Lance Morrow
  • "Somehow, amidst the Bonds and Smiley's People, we have ignored the greatest of 20th century spy stories - that of Stalin's Sorge, whose exploits helped change history." - Carl Bernstein
  • "Richard Sorge's brilliant espionage work saved Stalin and the Soviet Union from defeat in the fall of 1941, probably prevented a Nazi victory in World War Two and thereby assured the dimensions of the world we live in today." - Larry Collins
  • "The spies in history who can say from their graves, the information I supplied to my masters, for better or worse, altered the history of our planet, can be counted on the fingers of one hand. Richard Sorge was in that group." - Frederick Forsyth
  • "Stalin's James Bond." - Le Figaro

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