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Image, The resistance of policy-makers to intelligence is not just founded on an

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The resistance of policy-makers to intelligence is not just founded on an ideological presupposition. They distrust intelligence sources and intelligence officials because they don't understand what the real problems are.

—Aldrich Ames

Image, Let’s say a Soviet exchange student back in the ’70s would

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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 things that he'd seen and done and been involved with. This is not really espionage; there's no betrayal of trust.

—Aldrich Ames

Image, I said in court a long time ago that I didn’t see

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I said in court a long time ago that I didn't see that the Soviet Union was significantly helped by the information I gave them, nor that the United States was significantly harmed.

—Aldrich Ames

Image, By the late ’70s I had come to question the point

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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 overall charter.

—Aldrich Ames

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Image, I could have stopped it after they paid me the $50,000. I wouldn’t

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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 had: just the double agents' names that I gave.

—Aldrich Ames

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I'm a traitor, but I don't consider myself a traitor.

—Aldrich Ames

Image, No one’s interested really in knowing what policies or diplomatic initiatives or

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No one's interested really in knowing what policies or diplomatic initiatives or arms negotiations might have been compromised by me.

—Aldrich Ames

Image, Historians don’t really like to carry on speculative debates, but you could

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Historians don't really like to carry on speculative debates, but you could certainly argue that the likelihood of a Soviet invasion of Western Europe was extremely, extremely low.

—Aldrich Ames

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Image, To the extent that I considered the personal burden of harming the

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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 wasn't processing that.

—Aldrich Ames

Image, Foreign Ministry guys don’t become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds,

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Foreign Ministry guys don't become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not to volunteer to Western intelligence agencies.

—Aldrich Ames

Image, My little scam in April ’85 went like this: Give me $50,000; here’s

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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

Image, Because interrogations are intended to coerce confessions, interrogators feel themselves

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Because interrogations are intended to coerce confessions, interrogators feel themselves justified in using their coercive means. Consistency regarding the technique is not important; inducing anxiety and fear is the point.

—Aldrich Ames

Image, An espionage organization is a collector: it collects raw information.

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An espionage organization is a collector: it collects raw information. That gets processed by a machinery that is supposed to resolve its reliability, and to present a finished product.

—Aldrich Ames

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Image, By the late ’70s I had come to question the point of a great deal of what we were doing

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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 overall charter.

—Aldrich Ames

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

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Espionage, for the most part, involves finding a person who knows something or has something that you can induce them secretly to give to you. That almost always involves a betrayal of trust.

—Aldrich Ames

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

—Aldrich Ames

Image, Historians don’t really like to carry on speculative debates, but you could certainly argue

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Historians don’t really like to carry on speculative debates, but you could certainly argue that the likelihood of a Soviet invasion of Western Europe was extremely, extremely low.