Agents Quote by Aldrich Ames

My notion of the KGB came from romantic spy stories. I was a pure and utterly successful product of Soviet patriotic education.

— Vladimir Putin

The thing about the Russian secret police and the Soviet secret police is that one never leaves the secret police. Once a KGB man,…

— Masha Gessen

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

— Aldrich Ames

There is no such thing as a former KGB man.

— Vladimir Putin

I've met enough KGB colonels in my life.

— Garry Kasparov

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…

— Aldrich Ames

Nobody ever leaves the KGB, by the way. Once you're there, no matter what you say you've done next, nobody ever leaves the KGB.

— Rush Limbaugh

As we know the KGB is all over this election [2016].

— James Carville

One of my books, called 'Moscow Station,' revealed that a KGB archivist had defected from Russia to the FBI. And I knew that he…

— Ronald Kessler

I handed over names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union.

— 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…

— Aldrich Ames

For years before my Navy enlistment, I had studied the Soviet Union and the KGB's history of political intrigue in preparation for a career…

— Malcolm Nance