Foreign Ministry guys don’t become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, — Aldrich Ames
Because interrogations are intended to coerce confessions, interrogators feel themselves — Aldrich Ames
By the late ’70s I had come to question the point of a great deal of what we were doing — Aldrich Ames
Espionage, for the most part, involves finding a person who knows something or has something — Aldrich Ames
Historians don’t really like to carry on speculative debates, but you could certainly argue — Aldrich Ames
The human spy, in terms of the american espionage effort, had never been terribly pertinent. — Aldrich Ames
Foreign ministry guys don’t become agents. Party officials, the foreign ministry nerds — Aldrich Ames
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
The only thing I ever withheld from the kgb were the names of two agents whom I personally — Aldrich Ames
The resistance of policy-makers to intelligence is not just founded on an ideological presupposition. — Aldrich Ames
The soviet union did not achieve victory over the west, so was my information inadequate — Aldrich Ames
The u.s. Is, so far as I know, the only nation which places such extensive reliance on the polygraph. — Aldrich Ames
I came into the agency with a set of ideas and attitudes that were quite typical of people — Aldrich Ames
I could have stopped it after they paid me the $50,000. I wouldn’t even have had to go on to — Aldrich Ames
There are so many things a large intelligence espionage organization can do to justify its existence — Aldrich Ames
In my professional work with the agency, by the late ’70s, I had come to question the value — Aldrich Ames
The use of the polygraph has done little more than create confusion, ambiguity and mistakes. — Aldrich Ames
To the extent that I considered the personal burden of harming the people who had trusted me — Aldrich Ames