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Let's say a Soviet exchange student back in the '70s would go back and tell the KGB about people and places and things that he'd seen and done and been involved with. This is not really espionage; there's no betrayal of trust.

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The betrayal of trust carries a heavy taboo.

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We had periodic crises in this country when the technical intelligence didn't support the policy. We had the bomber gap, the missile gap.

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When I got the money, the whole burden descended on me, and the realization of what I had done. And it led me then to make the further step, a change of loyalties.

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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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An espionage organization is a collector: it collects raw information. That gets processed by a machinery that is supposed to resolve its reliability, and to present a finished product.

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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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Deciding whether to trust or credit a person is always an uncertain task.

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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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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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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Criminal

Born: June 19th, 1941

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