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The Soviet Union did not achieve victory over the West, so was my

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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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

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Trust
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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

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Intelligence
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Aldrich Ames
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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

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In a world flagrant with the failures of civilization, what is there particularly immortal about our own? – G.K. Chesterton

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You get so afraid of failure and so afraid of losing and so afraid of not being the best that its not a natural drive – its born out of fear of failure. Which helps in Hollywood. – Gabrielle Union

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A Failure in this Duty did once involve our Nation in all the Horrors of Rebellion and Civil War. – Charles Inglis

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One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake. – Anton Chekhov

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