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

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

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.

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 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 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?

I'm a traitor, but I don't consider myself a traitor.