I said in court a long time ago that I didn't see that the Soviet Union was significantly helped by the information… — Aldrich Ames Court Copy Share Image
The U.S. is, so far as I know, the only nation which places such extensive reliance on the polygraph. It has gotten… — Aldrich Ames Reliance Copy Share Image
I came into the Agency with a set of ideas and attitudes that were quite typical of people coming into the Agency… — Aldrich Ames Agency Copy Share Image
When I got the money, the whole burden descended on me, and the realization of what I had done. And it led… — Aldrich Ames Burden Copy Share Image
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 Credit Copy Share Image
The Soviet Union did not achieve victory over the West, so was my information inadequate to help them to victory, or did… — Aldrich Ames Achieve Copy Share Image
The human spy, in terms of the American espionage effort, had never been terribly pertinent. — Aldrich Ames Effort Copy Share Image
Our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet Union. — Aldrich Ames Intelligence Copy Share Image
The national security state has many unfair and cruel weapons in its arsenal, but that of junk science is one which can… — Aldrich Ames Arsenal Copy Share Image
In my professional work with the Agency, by the late '70s, I had come to question the value of a great deal… — Aldrich Ames Great Copy Share Image
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 April Copy Share Image
There are so many things a large intelligence espionage organization can do to justify its existence, that people can get promotions for,… — Aldrich Ames Existence Copy Share Image
Foreign Ministry guys don't become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not to volunteer to Western intelligence agencies. — Aldrich Ames Agents Copy Share Image
I knew quite well, when I gave the names of our agents in the Soviet Union, that I was exposing them to… — Aldrich Ames Agents Copy Share Image
When I handed over the names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union, I had come to the conclusion… — Aldrich Ames Cia Copy Share Image
The resistance of policy-makers to intelligence is not just founded on an ideological presupposition. They distrust intelligence sources and intelligence officials because… — Aldrich Ames Distrust Copy Share Image
To the extent that I considered the personal burden of harming the people who had trusted me, plus the Agency, or the… — Aldrich Ames Agency Copy Share Image
An espionage organization is a collector: it collects raw information. That gets processed by a machinery that is supposed to resolve its… — Aldrich Ames Espionage Copy Share Image
We had periodic crises in this country when the technical intelligence didn't support the policy. We had the bomber gap, the missile… — Aldrich Ames Country Copy Share Image
The use of the polygraph has done little more than create confusion, ambiguity and mistakes. — Aldrich Ames Ambiguity Copy Share Image
When Reagan was elected, I felt that the Agency had gone much more into the service of a political tendency in the… — Aldrich Ames Agency Copy Share Image
Espionage, for the most part, involves finding a person who knows something or has something that you can induce them secretly to… — Aldrich Ames Betrayal Copy Share Image
The only thing I ever withheld from the KGB were the names of two agents whom I personally had known and handled… — Aldrich Ames Agents Copy Share Image
I could have stopped it after they paid me the $50,000. I wouldn't even have had to go on to do more… — Aldrich Ames Agents Copy Share Image
