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.

The human spy, in terms of the American espionage effort, had never been terribly pertinent.

I handed over names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union.

The resistance of policy-makers to intelligence is not just founded on an ideological presupposition. They distrust intelligence sources and intelligence officials because they don't understand what the real problems are.

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

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

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.