Aldrich Ames Quotes - Page 2

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• The Soviet Union did not achieve victory over the West, so was my information inadequate to help them to victory, or did it play no particular role in their failure to achieve victory?

  Aldrich Ames

  Play, Victory, Roles

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• The FBI, to its credit in a self-serving sort of way, rejects the routine use of the polygraph on its own people.

  Aldrich Ames

  Self, People, Routine

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

  Aldrich Ames

  Party, Agency, Volunteer

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• When Reagan was elected, I felt that the Agency had gone much more into the service of a political tendency in the country with which I had already felt very strong disagreement.

  Aldrich Ames

  Strength, Country, Strong

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• 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 Ames

  Names, Double Standard, Agents

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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 Ames

  Attitude, Agency, Ideas

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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.

  Aldrich Ames

  Effort, Political, Unions

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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