Tom Clancy: Richard Sorge was the best spy of all time. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5430
Carl Bernstein: 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. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5431
Larry Collins: 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 II and thereby assured the dimensions of the world we live in today. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5432
Frederick Forsyth: 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. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5433