# Spies like us

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spies-like-us/75297
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [August 7, 2001, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spies-like-us/75297 "2001-08-07T15:53:40Z")
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### Author: ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2001, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spies-like-us/75297/7 "2001-08-07T18:52:15Z")

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To quote Miles Copeland

“I’ll let you into a little secret, we don’t use Americans to spy on Russians, we use Russians to spy on Russians”

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