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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. April
• The national security state has many unfair and cruel weapons in its arsenal, but that of junk science is one which can be fought and… Arsenal
• You might as well ask why a middle-aged man with no criminal record might put a paper bag over his head and rob a bank.… Acted
• To the extent that I considered the personal burden of harming the people who had trusted me, plus the Agency, or the United States, I… Agency
• The only thing I ever withheld from the KGB were the names of two agents whom I personally had known and handled and had a… Agents
• 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… Achieve
• I knew quite well, when I gave the names of our agents in the Soviet Union, that I was exposing them to the full machinery… Agents
• When I got the money, the whole burden descended on me, and the realization of what I had done. And it led me then to… Burden
• Our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet Union. Any
• There are so many things a large intelligence espionage organization can do to justify its existence, that people can get promotions for, because it could… Espionage
• When I handed over the names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union, I had come to the conclusion that the loss… Agents
• In my professional work with the Agency, by the late '70s, I had come to question the value of a great deal of what we… Agency
• We had periodic crises in this country when the technical intelligence didn't support the policy. We had the bomber gap, the missile gap. Bomber

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