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

The only thing I ever withheld from the KGB were the names of two agents whom I personally had known and handled and had a particular feeling for.

I came into the Agency with a set of ideas and attitudes that were quite typical of people coming into the Agency at that time. You could call it liberal anti-communism.

The betrayal of trust carries a heavy taboo.

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

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.

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.