Achieve Quote by Aldrich Ames

“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?” quote by Aldrich Ames — Download Open 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 no particular role in their failure to achieve victory?”

Aldrich Ames

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Our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet Union.

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

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