The betrayal of trust carries a heavy taboo.
Let's say a Soviet exchange student back in the '70s would go back and tell...
Deciding whether to trust or credit a person is always an uncertain task.
Espionage for the most part involves finding a person who knows something...
Foreign Ministry guys don't become agents. Party officials the Foreign...
We had periodic crises in this country when the technical intelligence didn't...
The resistance of policy-makers to intelligence is not just founded on an...
There are so many things a large intelligence espionage organization can do...
Our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never or had very seldom...
In my professional work with the Agency by the late '70s I had come to...
If I feel strongly I say it. I know I can do more good by being vocal than by staying quiet. I'd have a whole lot more money if I lied but I wouldn't enjoy spending it.