“Foreign Ministry guys don't become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not to volunteer to Western intelligence agencies.” GuyPartyWesternAgentsAgencyOfficialsMinistryVolunteerNerdIntelligence Agencies Author:Aldrich Ames
“I handed over names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union.” NamesUnionsAgentsSovietSoviet UnionCiaCia Agents Author:Aldrich Ames
“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.” NamesGoes OnPaidAgentsDouble Standard Author:Aldrich Ames
“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.” PeopleGivingKindRunningSawsLimitsAgentsFedsScamsKgb Author:Aldrich Ames
“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.” TwoFeelingsNamesKnownParticularAgentsKgb Author:Aldrich Ames
“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.” WellsLawNamesUnionsPunishmentAgentsSovietSoviet UnionMachineryExposingCapital PunishmentProsecution Author:Aldrich Ames
