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

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

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.

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

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.

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.