Aldrich Ames

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. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#agency #away #backed #conducting #difficulties

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

#fbi #own #people #polygraph #rejects

The human spy, in terms of the American espionage effort, had never been terribly pertinent. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#been #effort #espionage #had #human

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. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#cruel #defeated #fought #junk #many

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. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#ever #feeling #had #handled #i

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? ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#did #failure #help #inadequate #information

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. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#far #gotten #i #into #know

The use of the polygraph has done little more than create confusion, ambiguity and mistakes. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#confusion #create #done #little #mistakes

There are so many things a large intelligence espionage organization can do to justify its existence, that people can get promotions for, because it could result in results. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#could #espionage #existence #get #intelligence

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

#burden #considered #extent #had #harming