Aldrich Ames People Quotations

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

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.

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

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.

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

I saw a limit to what I was giving as kind of a scam I was running on the KGB, by giving them people that I knew were their double agents fed to us.