Deciding whether to trust or credit a person is always an uncertain task.

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I found that our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced...

I found that our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced...

By the late '70s I had come to question the point of a great deal...

By the late '70s I had come to question the point of a great deal...

When I got the money, the whole burden descended on me, and the realization of...

When I got the money, the whole burden descended on me, and the realization of...

To the extent that I considered the personal burden of harming the people who had...

To the extent that I considered the personal burden of harming the people who had...

We had periodic crises in this country when the technical intelligence didn't support the policy....

We had periodic crises in this country when the technical intelligence didn't support the policy....

My little scam in April '85 went like this: Give me $50,000; here's some names...

My little scam in April '85 went like this: Give me $50,000; here's some names...

Foreign Ministry guys don't become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not to...

Foreign Ministry guys don't become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not to...

You might as well ask why a middle-aged man with no criminal record might put...

You might as well ask why a middle-aged man with no criminal record might put...

In my professional work with the Agency, by the late '70s, I had come to...

In my professional work with the Agency, by the late '70s, I had come to...

I handed over names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union.

I handed over names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union.

No one's interested really in knowing what policies or diplomatic initiatives or arms negotiations might...

No one's interested really in knowing what policies or diplomatic initiatives or arms negotiations might...

The resistance of policy-makers to intelligence is not just founded on an ideological presupposition. They...

The resistance of policy-makers to intelligence is not just founded on an ideological presupposition. They...

The FBI, to its credit in a self-serving sort of way, rejects the routine use...

The FBI, to its credit in a self-serving sort of way, rejects the routine use...

Let's say a Soviet exchange student back in the '70s would go back and tell...

Let's say a Soviet exchange student back in the '70s would go back and tell...

Perhaps my information hurt the Soviet Union more than it helped. I have no idea....

Perhaps my information hurt the Soviet Union more than it helped. I have no idea....

The use of the polygraph has done little more than create confusion, ambiguity and mistakes.

The use of the polygraph has done little more than create confusion, ambiguity and mistakes.

Because interrogations are intended to coerce confessions, interrogators feel themselves justified in using their coercive...

Because interrogations are intended to coerce confessions, interrogators feel themselves justified in using their coercive...

Historians don't really like to carry on speculative debates, but you could certainly argue that...

Historians don't really like to carry on speculative debates, but you could certainly argue that...

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of...

Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of...