The use of the polygraph has done little more than create confusion, ambiguity and mistakes.
Aldrich AmesForeign Ministry guys don't become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not to volunteer to Western intelligence agencies.
Aldrich AmesThe 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.
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