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

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

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

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..

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….

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

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

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….

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….

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

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

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 ….

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

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..

The human spy, in terms of the American espionage effort, had never been terribly pertinent..

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

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….

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….

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 ….

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..