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Because interrogations are intended to coerce confessions, interrogators feel themselves justified in using their coercive means. Consistency regarding the technique is not important inducing anxiety and fear is the point.
Aldrich Ames
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Aldrich Ames
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: May 26
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The betrayal of trust carries a heavy taboo.
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Perhaps my information hurt the Soviet Union more than it helped. I have no idea. It was not something I ever discussed with the KGB officers that I was dealing with.
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The difficulties of conducting espionage against the Soviet Union in the Soviet Union were such that historically the Agency had backed away from the task.
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I could have stopped it after they paid me the $50,000. I wouldn't even have had to go on to do more than I already had: just the double agents' names that I gave.
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I'm a traitor, but I don't consider myself a traitor.
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To the extent that I considered the personal burden of harming the people who had trusted me, plus the Agency, or the United States, I wasn't processing that.
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When Reagan was elected, I felt that the Agency had gone much more into the service of a political tendency in the country with which I had already felt very strong disagreement.
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By the late '70s I had come to question the point of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms of the CIA's overall charter.
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The resistance of policy-makers to intelligence is not just founded on an ideological presupposition. They distrust intelligence sources and intelligence officials because they don't understand what the real problems are.
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No one's interested really in knowing what policies or diplomatic initiatives or arms negotiations might have been compromised by me.
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The human spy, in terms of the American espionage effort, had never been terribly pertinent.
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My little scam in April '85 went like this: Give me $50,000 here's some names of some people we've recruited.
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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.
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