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.
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… - Aldrich Ames
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…
- Aldrich Ames
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. - Aldrich Ames
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.
No one's interested really in knowing what policies or diplomatic initiatives or arms negotiations might have been compromised by me. - Aldrich Ames
No one's interested really in knowing what policies or diplomatic initiatives or arms negotiations might have been compromised by me.
An espionage organization is a collector: it collects raw information. That gets processed by a machinery that is supposed to resolve its reliability… - Aldrich Ames
An espionage organization is a collector: it collects raw information. That gets processed by a machinery that is supposed to resolve its reliability…
The resistance of policy-makers to intelligence is not just founded on an ideological presupposition. They distrust intelligence sources and intellig… - Aldrich Ames
The resistance of policy-makers to intelligence is not just founded on an ideological presupposition. They distrust intelligence sources and intellig…
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. - Aldrich Ames
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… - Aldrich Ames
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…
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 … - Aldrich Ames
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 …
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… - Aldrich Ames
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…
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