“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.” PeopleDoneStudentsInvolvedBetrayalSovietEspionageTrust No OneKgbBetrayal Of Trust Author:Aldrich Ames
“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.” InformationProductsOrganizationFinishedResolveMachineryCollectorsEspionageReliability Author:Aldrich Ames
“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.” KnowsGivingPersonsFindingsBetrayalEspionageBetrayal Of Trust Author:Aldrich Ames
“I found that our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet Union.” PoliticalFoundEffortEconomicUnionsSovietWorthwhileSoviet UnionEspionage Author:Aldrich Ames
“The human spy, in terms of the American espionage effort, had never been terribly pertinent.” HumansTermEffortSpyEspionagePertinent Author: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.” TasksDifficultyUnionsAgencySovietSoviet UnionEspionageConducting Author:Aldrich Ames
