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

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.

The only thing I ever withheld from the KGB were the names of two agents whom I personally had known and handled and had a particular feeling for.

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

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

You might as well ask why a middle-aged man with no criminal record might put a paper bag over his head and rob a bank. I acted out of personal desperation.

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.