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

Historians don't really like to carry on speculative debates, but you could certainly argue that the likelihood of a Soviet invasion of Western Europe was extremely, extremely low.

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?

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

Deciding whether to trust or credit a person is always an uncertain task.

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.