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 saw a limit to what I was giving as kind of a scam I was running on the KGB, by giving them people that I knew were their double agents fed to us.

My little scam in April '85 went like this: Give me $50,000; here's some names of some people we've recruited.

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.

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.

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

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