“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
“I came into the Agency with a set of ideas and attitudes that were quite typical of people coming into the Agency at that time. You could call it liberal anti-communism.” PeopleIdeasAttitudeCommunismAgencyTypicalAnti Communism Author:Aldrich Ames
“The FBI, to its credit in a self-serving sort of way, rejects the routine use of the polygraph on its own people.” PeopleWaySelfUseCreditRejectsServingRoutineFbiSelf ServingPolygraph 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
“My little scam in April '85 went like this: Give me $50,000; here's some names of some people we've recruited.” PeopleGivingLittlesNamesGive MeAprilScams Author:Aldrich Ames
“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.” PeopleStatesAmericaUnitedUnited StatesBurdenAgencyPlusTrustedProcessing Author:Aldrich Ames
