To the extent that I considered the personal burden of harming the people who had trusted me, plus the Agency, or the United States, I wasn't processing that.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.