Ambiguity Quote by Aldrich Ames

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“The use of the polygraph has done little more than create confusion, ambiguity and mistakes.”

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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…

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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…

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I came into the Agency with a set of ideas and attitudes that were quite typical of people coming into the Agency at that…

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When I got the money, the whole burden descended on me, and the realization of what I had done. And it led me then…

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The FBI, to its credit in a self-serving sort of way, rejects the routine use of the polygraph on its own people.

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The Soviet Union did not achieve victory over the West, so was my information inadequate to help them to victory, or did it play…

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The human spy, in terms of the American espionage effort, had never been terribly pertinent.

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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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The national security state has many unfair and cruel weapons in its arsenal, but that of junk science is one which can be fought…

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In my professional work with the Agency, by the late '70s, I had come to question the value of a great deal of what…

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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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There are so many things a large intelligence espionage organization can do to justify its existence, that people can get promotions for, because it…

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