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… — Aldrich Ames Copy Share Image
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… — Aldrich Ames Copy Share Image
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… — Aldrich Ames Copy Share Image
I came into the Agency with a set of ideas and attitudes that were quite typical of people coming into the Agency at that… — Aldrich Ames Copy Share Image
When I got the money, the whole burden descended on me, and the realization of what I had done. And it led me then… — Aldrich Ames Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The Soviet Union did not achieve victory over the West, so was my information inadequate to help them to victory, or did it play… — Aldrich Ames Copy Share Image
The human spy, in terms of the American espionage effort, had never been terribly pertinent. — Aldrich Ames Copy Share Image
Our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet Union. — Aldrich Ames Copy Share Image
The national security state has many unfair and cruel weapons in its arsenal, but that of junk science is one which can be fought… — Aldrich Ames Copy Share Image
In my professional work with the Agency, by the late '70s, I had come to question the value of a great deal of what… — Aldrich Ames Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There are so many things a large intelligence espionage organization can do to justify its existence, that people can get promotions for, because it… — Aldrich Ames Copy Share Image
