You might as well ask why a middle-aged man with no criminal record might put a paper bag over his head and rob a bank. I acted out of personal desperation.

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.

The use of the polygraph has done little more than create confusion, ambiguity and mistakes.

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

The difficulties of conducting espionage against the Soviet Union in the Soviet Union were such that historically the Agency had backed away from the task.

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.

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