The resistance of policy-makers to intelligence is not just founded on an ideological presupposition. They distrust intelligence sources and intellig….

I saw a limit to what I was giving as kind of a scam I was running on the KGB, by giving them people that I knew were their double agents fed to us..

Espionage, for the most part, involves finding a person who knows something or has something that you can induce them secretly to give to you. That a….

I said in court a long time ago that I didn't see that the Soviet Union was significantly helped by the information I gave them, nor that the United ….

No one's interested really in knowing what policies or diplomatic initiatives or arms negotiations might have been compromised by me..

You might as well ask why a middle-aged man with no criminal record might put a paper bag over his head and rob a bank. I acted out of personal despe….

To the extent that I considered the personal burden of harming the people who had trusted me, plus the Agency, or the United States, I wasn't process….

The U.S. is, so far as I know, the only nation which places such extensive reliance on the polygraph. It has gotten us into a lot of trouble..

An espionage organization is a collector: it collects raw information. That gets processed by a machinery that is supposed to resolve its reliability….

I'm a traitor, but I don't consider myself a traitor..

Because interrogations are intended to coerce confessions, interrogators feel themselves justified in using their coercive means. Consistency regardi….

I knew quite well, when I gave the names of our agents in the Soviet Union, that I was exposing them to the full machinery of counterespionage and th….

I found that our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the ….

Historians don't really like to carry on speculative debates, but you could certainly argue that the likelihood of a Soviet invasion of Western Europ….

The difficulties of conducting espionage against the Soviet Union in the Soviet Union were such that historically the Agency had backed away from the….

My little scam in April '85 went like this: Give me $50,000; here's some names of some people we've recruited..

Perhaps my information hurt the Soviet Union more than it helped. I have no idea. It was not something I ever discussed with the KGB officers that I ….

Deciding whether to trust or credit a person is always an uncertain task..

Let's say a Soviet exchange student back in the '70s would go back and tell the KGB about people and places and things that he'd seen and done and be….

By the late '70s I had come to question the point of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms of the CIA's overall charter..

The FBI, to its credit in a self-serving sort of way, rejects the routine use of the polygraph on its own people..