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I handed over names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union. Aldrich Ames
CIA Compromised Over Names Handed Soviet Soviet Union Agents Union Many
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. Aldrich Ames
Me Gave More Could Had Names Go Than Just Stopped After Double Agents Paid Even
I knew quite well, when I gave the names of our agents in the Soviet Union, that I was exposing them to the full machinery of counterespionage and the law, and then prosecution and capital punishment. Aldrich Ames
Law Gave Our Machinery Punishment Knew Prosecution Names Well Soviet Quite Soviet Union Them Capital Then Agents Capital Punishment Full Union Exposing
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. Aldrich Ames
People Giving Saw Scam Kind Running Fed KGB Knew Limit Were Them Double Us Agents
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
Anxiety Fear Consistency Important Point Feel Because Intended Confessions Regarding Justified Themselves Means Using Coerce Coercive Technique
My little scam in April '85 went like this: Give me $50,000; here's some names of some people we've recruited. Aldrich Ames
Me People Some People April Scam Some Give Give Me Like Names Little Here
No one's interested really in knowing what policies or diplomatic initiatives or arms negotiations might have been compromised by me. Aldrich Ames
Me Negotiations Diplomatic Compromised Knowing Policies Arms Been Interested Might Really Initiatives
The national security state has many unfair and cruel weapons in its arsenal, but that of junk science is one which can be fought and perhaps defeated. Aldrich Ames
Science National Unfair State Security Weapons Cruel Perhaps Arsenal Junk National Security Which Many Fought Defeated
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. Aldrich Ames
Trust People Seen Back Say Tell Would About Betrayal Student KGB Exchange He Involved Go Been Espionage Soviet Done Places Really Things
We had periodic crises in this country when the technical intelligence didn't support the policy. We had the bomber gap, the missile gap. Aldrich Ames
Intelligence Country Crises Had Support Missile Periodic Policy Gap Technical Bomber
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. Aldrich Ames
Great CIA Great Deal Late Charter Point Had Come Overall Terms Deal Doing Were Question
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. Aldrich Ames
Organization Finished Resolve Machinery Reliability Collector Finished Product Raw Supposed Espionage Gets Information Processed Product Present
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. Aldrich Ames
Hurt No Idea Something More KGB Idea Perhaps Dealing Than Discussed Officers Soviet Soviet Union Information Union Helped Ever
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. Aldrich Ames
Intelligence Political Virtually Our Worthwhile Economic Seldom Never Had Very Efforts Espionage Soviet Any Soviet Union Produced Union Found
The human spy, in terms of the American espionage effort, had never been terribly pertinent. Aldrich Ames
Never Had Terms Terribly Been Spy Effort American Espionage Human Pertinent
The U.S. is, so far as I know, the only nation which places such extensive reliance on the polygraph. It has gotten us into a lot of trouble. Aldrich Ames
Trouble Nation Reliance Only Know Gotten Lot Polygraph Which Places Far Us Extensive
I said in court a long time ago that I didn't see that the Soviet Union was significantly helped by the information I gave them, nor that the United States was significantly harmed. Aldrich Ames
Time Long Long Time Gave States See Long Time Ago Court Said Nor Soviet Soviet Union Information Them Union Helped United United States Harmed
The FBI, to its credit in a self-serving sort of way, rejects the routine use of the polygraph on its own people. Aldrich Ames
People Own Way FBI Sort Self-Serving Polygraph Use Credit Routine Rejects
The Jews deserved to die. I have no regrets. If I had the chance I would do it again. Alois Brunner
Jews Would No Regrets Had Die Again Regrets Deserved Chance
I'm ashamed of what I did. Andrew Fastow
Did Ashamed
I believe I was extremely greedy. Andrew Fastow
Greedy Believe I Believe Extremely
In junior high school, I was an object of pure ridicule for my dress, withdrawal, and asocial manner. Dozens of times, I saw individuals laugh and smile more in ten to fifteen minutes than I did in all my life up to then. Arthur Bremer
Life Smile School Pure My Life Saw Laugh All My Life High Dress Minutes Object High School Ten More Individuals Withdrawal Up Times Junior Than Junior High Junior High School Did Fifteen Fifteen Minutes Then Manner Ridicule Dozens
It is my personal plan to assassinate by pistol either Richard Nixon or George Wallace. Arthur Bremer
Richard Nixon Nixon George Wallace Personal Pistol Either Plan Richard Assassinate
I was a beatnik in the '50s before the hippies came along. Charles Manson
Before Beatnik Along Hippies Came
I'm not of this generation. Charles Manson
Generation This Generation
I'm not very wise to many things. Charles Manson
Wise Very Many Things
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