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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 38 quotes by Aldrich Ames Aldrich Hazen Ames is an American who was convicted of espionage against his country in 1994. He is serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole in the high-security Allenwood U.S. Penitentiary. Ames was formerly a 31-year Central Intelligence Agency counterintelligence officer and analyst who committed espionage against his country by spying for the Soviet Union and Russia. So far as it is known, Ames compromised the second-largest... Read full biography of Aldrich Ames → 1 2 3 Ctrl → An espionage organization is a collector: it collects raw information. That gets processed by a machinery that is supposed to resolve its... → 0 Because interrogations are intended to coerce confessions, interrogators feel themselves justified in using their coercive means. Consistency... → 0 By the late '70s I had come to question the point of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms of the CIA's overall charter. 0 Deciding whether to trust or credit a person is always an uncertain task. 0 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... → 0 Foreign Ministry guys don't become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not to volunteer to Western intelligence agencies. 0 Historians don't really like to carry on speculative debates, but you could certainly argue that the likelihood of a Soviet invasion of Western... → 0 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... → 0 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... → 0 I found that our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the... → 0 I handed over names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union. 0 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... → 0 I said in court a long time ago that I didn't see that the Soviet Union was significantly helped by the information I gave them, nor that the... → 0 1 2 3 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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