Aldrich Ames

I found that our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced…

In my professional work with the Agency, by the late ’70s, I had come to…

Deciding whether to trust or credit a person is always an uncertain task…

There are so many things a large intelligence espionage organization can do to justify its…

Foreign Ministry guys don’t become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not to…

Let’s say a Soviet exchange student back in the ’70s would go back and tell…

Espionage, for the most part, involves finding a person who knows something or has something…

We had periodic crises in this country when the technical intelligence didn’t support the policy…

The resistance of policy-makers to intelligence is not just founded on an ideological presupposition…

Our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political…

The Soviet Union did not achieve victory over the West, so was my information inadequate…

The betrayal of trust carries a heavy taboo…