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

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

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.

When Reagan was elected, I felt that the Agency had gone much more into the service of a political tendency in the country with which I had already felt very strong disagreement.

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 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.

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.