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Foreign Ministry guys dont become agents. Party officials, the For

Foreign Ministry guys dont become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not to volunteer to Western intelligence agencies. – Aldrich Ames

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Lets say a Soviet exchange student back in the 70s would go back and tell the KGB about people and places and things that hed seen and done and been involved with. This is not really espionage theres no betrayal of trust. – Aldrich Ames

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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

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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

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