Aldrich Hazen Ames ,quotes

My little scam in April '85 we...

My little scam in April '85 went like this: Give me $50,000; here's some names of some people we've recruited.

Aldrich Hazen Ames 14.07.2011 16:34:10 38 quotes

Let's say a Soviet exchange st...

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.

Aldrich Hazen Ames 14.07.2011 16:34:04 38 quotes

In my professional work with t...

In my professional work with the Agency, by the late '70s, I had come to question the value of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms of the intelligence agency's impact on American policy.

Aldrich Hazen Ames 14.07.2011 16:33:57 38 quotes

I'm a traitor, but I don't con...

I'm a traitor, but I don't consider myself a traitor.

Aldrich Hazen Ames 14.07.2011 16:33:48 38 quotes

I saw a limit to what I was gi...

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.

Aldrich Hazen Ames 14.07.2011 16:33:36 38 quotes

I said in court a long time ag...

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 United States was significantly harmed.

Aldrich Hazen Ames 14.07.2011 16:33:30 38 quotes

I knew quite well, when I gave...

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.

Aldrich Hazen Ames 14.07.2011 16:33:24 38 quotes

I handed over names and compro...

I handed over names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union.

Aldrich Hazen Ames 14.07.2011 16:33:16 38 quotes

I found that our Soviet espion...

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.

Aldrich Hazen Ames 14.07.2011 16:33:10 38 quotes

I could have stopped it after ...

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.

Aldrich Hazen Ames 14.07.2011 16:33:03 38 quotes

I came into the Agency with a ...

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.

Aldrich Hazen Ames 14.07.2011 16:32:57 38 quotes

Historians don't really like t...

Historians don't really like to carry on speculative debates, but you could certainly argue that the likelihood of a Soviet invasion of Western Europe was extremely, extremely low.

Aldrich Hazen Ames 14.07.2011 16:32:50 38 quotes

Foreign Ministry guys don't be...

Foreign Ministry guys don't become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not to volunteer to Western intelligence agencies.

Aldrich Hazen Ames 14.07.2011 16:32:30 38 quotes

Espionage, for the most part, ...

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.

Aldrich Hazen Ames 14.07.2011 16:32:24 38 quotes

Deciding whether to trust or c...

Deciding whether to trust or credit a person is always an uncertain task.

Aldrich Hazen Ames 14.07.2011 16:32:17 38 quotes

By the late '70s I had come to...

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.

Aldrich Hazen Ames 14.07.2011 16:32:10 38 quotes

Because interrogations are int...

Because interrogations are intended to coerce confessions, interrogators feel themselves justified in using their coercive means. Consistency regarding the technique is not important; inducing anxiety and fear is the point.

Aldrich Hazen Ames 14.07.2011 16:32:04 38 quotes

An espionage organization is a...

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.

Aldrich Hazen Ames 14.07.2011 16:31:57 38 quotes

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