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
Deciding whether to trust or credit a person is always an uncertain task. – Aldrich Ames
Foreign Ministry guys dont become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not to volunteer to Western intelligence agencies. – 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