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The betrayal of trust carries a heavy taboo (Aldrich Ames Quotes)
I came into the Agency with a set of ideas and attitudes that were quite typical of people coming into the Agency at that time. You could call it liberal anti-communism (Aldrich Ames Quotes)
The FBI, to its credit in a self-serving sort of way, rejects the routine use of the polygraph on its own people (Aldrich Ames Quotes)
The human spy, in terms of the American espionage effort, had never been terribly pertinent (Aldrich Ames Quotes)
The only thing I ever withheld from the KGB were the names of two agents whom I personally had known and handled and had a particular feeling for (Aldrich Ames Quotes)
The Soviet Union did not achieve victory over the West, so was my information inadequate to help them to victory, or did it play no particular role in their failure to achieve victory (Aldrich Ames Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 processing that (Aldrich Ames Quotes)
When Reagan was elected, I felt that the Agency had gone much more into the service of a political tendency in the country with which I had already felt very strong disagreement (Aldrich Ames Quotes)
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 desperation (Aldrich Ames Quotes)
Foreign Ministry guys don’t become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not to volunteer to Western intelligence agencies (Aldrich Ames Quotes)
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 been involved with. This is not really espionage; there’s no betrayal of trust (Aldrich Ames Quotes)
The difficulties of conducting espionage against the Soviet Union in the Soviet Union were such that historically the Agency had backed away from the task (Aldrich Ames Quotes)
When Reagan was elected, I felt that the Agency had gone much more into the service of a political tendency in the country with which I had already felt very strong disagreement. (Aldrich Ames Quotes)
In my professional work with the Agency, by the late 70s, I had come to question the value of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms of the intelligence agency’s impact on American policy. (Aldrich Ames Quotes)
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. (Aldrich Ames Quotes)
There are so many things a large intelligence espionage organization can do to justify its existence, that people can get promotions for, because it could result in results. (Aldrich Ames Quotes)
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 Quotes)
My little scam in April 85 went like this: Give me $50,000; here’s some names of some people we’ve recruited. (Aldrich Ames Quotes)
The only thing I ever withheld from the KGB were the names of two agents whom I personally had known and handled and had a particular feeling for. (Aldrich Ames Quotes)
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 processing that. (Aldrich Ames Quotes)
No one’s interested really in knowing what policies or diplomatic initiatives or arms negotiations might have been compromised by me. (Aldrich Ames Quotes)
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 was dealing with (Aldrich Ames Quotes)
I found that our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet Union (Aldrich Ames Quotes)
In my professional work with the Agency, by the late 70s, I had come to question the value of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms of the intelligence agency’s impact on American policy (Aldrich Ames Quotes)
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 (Aldrich Ames Quotes)
Historians don’t really like to carry on speculative debates, but you could certainly argue that the likelihood of a Soviet invasion of Western Europe was extremely, extremely low (Aldrich Ames Quotes)
I could have stopped it after they paid me the $50,000. I wouldn’t even have had to go on to do more than I already had: just the double agents’ names that I gave (Aldrich Ames Quotes)
I handed over names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union (Aldrich Ames Quotes)
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 States was significantly harmed (Aldrich Ames Quotes)
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