Foreign Ministry guys don't become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not to volunteer to Western intelligence agencies.

Let's say a Soviet exchange student back in the '70s would go back and tell the KGB about people and places and things that he'd seen and done and been involved with. This is not really espionage; there's no betrayal of trust.

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

Because interrogations are intended to coerce confessions, interrogators feel themselves justified in using their coercive means. Consistency regarding the technique is not important; inducing anxiety and fear is the point.

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

The betrayal of trust carries a heavy taboo.

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.