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Had Quotes by Aldrich Ames
- By the late '70s I had come to question the point of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms of the CIA's…
- I found that our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet Union.
- The human spy, in terms of the American espionage effort, had never been terribly pertinent.
- The difficulties of conducting espionage against the Soviet Union in the Soviet Union were such that historically the Agency had backed away from the task.
- I could have stopped it after they paid me the $50,000. I wouldn't even have had to go on to do more than I already…
- When Reagan was elected, I felt that the Agency had gone much more into the service of a political tendency in the country with which…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet Union.
- 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…
- 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…
- We had periodic crises in this country when the technical intelligence didn't support the policy. We had the bomber gap, the missile gap.
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