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“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.”

Quote by Aldrich Ames

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Aldrich Ames, born on May 26, 1941, is an individual of an unknown profession. more

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