Aldrich Ames Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“I handed over names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union.”

“I knew quite well, when I gave the names of our agents in the Soviet Union, that I was exposing them to the full machinery of counterespionage and the law, and then prosecution and capital punishment.”

“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.”

“I saw a limit to what I was giving as kind of a scam I was running on the KGB, by giving them people that I knew were their double agents fed to us.”

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

“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 were doing, in terms of the intelligence agency's impact on American policy.”

“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.”

“My little scam in April '85 went like this: Give me $50,000; here's some names of some people we've recruited.”

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

“Our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet Union.”