Agency Quote by Aldrich Ames

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

— Aldrich Ames

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

— Aldrich Ames

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

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

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

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