Deciding whether to trust or credit a person is always an uncertain task. – Aldrich Ames
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 Ames
We had periodic crises in this country when the technical intelligence didnt support the policy. We had the bomber gap, the missile gap. – Aldrich Ames
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 agencys impact on American policy. – Aldrich Ames