“There are so many things a large intelligence espionage organization can do to justify its existence, that people can get promotions for, because it could result in results.”
— Aldrich Ames
Author: Aldrich Ames
Category: intelligence
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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
Author: Aldrich Ames
Category: trust
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“Deciding whether to trust or credit a person is always an uncertain task.”
— Aldrich Ames
Author: Aldrich Ames
Category: trust
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“Our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet Union.”
— Aldrich Ames
Author: Aldrich Ames
Category: intelligence
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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
Author: Aldrich Ames
Category: failure
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“The betrayal of trust carries a heavy taboo.”
— Aldrich Ames
Author: Aldrich Ames
Category: trust
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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
Author: Aldrich Ames
Category: intelligence
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