He had a social contact with these people, but I deny that in any way, at least knowingly, he assisted them in intelligence gathering or locating dissidents.
My position is, if he was an agent of anybody, he was an agent of us.
Those contacts have been constant and numerous. ... They sought and received his cooperation. If they wanted to kick him out of the country, they had a year and three-quarters to do it.
He's more resolved to have himself be exonerated.