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• Let's say a Soviet exchange student back in the '70s would go back and tell the KGB about people and places and…
• I came into the Agency with a set of ideas and attitudes that were quite typical of people coming into the Agency…
• Because interrogations are intended to coerce confessions, interrogators feel themselves justified in using their coercive means. Consistency regarding the technique is not…
• The betrayal of trust carries a heavy taboo.
• An espionage organization is a collector: it collects raw information. That gets processed by a machinery that is supposed to resolve its…
• By the late '70s I had come to question the point of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms…
• Deciding whether to trust or credit a person is always an uncertain task.
• Espionage, for the most part, involves finding a person who knows something or has something that you can induce them secretly to…
• Foreign Ministry guys don't become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not to volunteer to Western intelligence agencies.
• Historians don't really like to carry on speculative debates, but you could certainly argue that the likelihood of a Soviet invasion of…
• I found that our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on…
• I handed over names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union.

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