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

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.

No one's interested really in knowing what policies or diplomatic initiatives or arms negotiations might have been compromised by me.

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.

Historians don't really like to carry on speculative debates, but you could certainly argue that the likelihood of a Soviet invasion of Western Europe was extremely, extremely low.

The Soviet Union did not achieve victory over the West, so was my information inadequate to help them to victory, or did it play no particular role in their failure to achieve victory?

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