Aldrich Ames Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)
Aldrich Ames quotes and sayings page 3 (criminal). Here's quote # 21 through 30 out of the 38 we have.
“Perhaps my information hurt the Soviet Union more than it helped. I have no idea. It was not something I ever discussed with the KGB officers that I was dealing with.”
“The betrayal of trust carries a heavy taboo.”
“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.”
“The FBI, to its credit in a self-serving sort of way, rejects the routine use of the polygraph on its own people.”
“The human spy, in terms of the American espionage effort, had never been terribly pertinent.”
“The national security state has many unfair and cruel weapons in its arsenal, but that of junk science is one which can be fought and perhaps defeated.”
“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 particular feeling for.”
“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.”
“The Soviet Union did not achieve victory over the West, so was my information inadequate to help them to victory, or did it play no particular role in their failure to achieve victory?”
“The U.S. is, so far as I know, the only nation which places such extensive reliance on the polygraph. It has gotten us into a lot of trouble.”
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