Let's say a Soviet exchange student back in the '70s would go back and tell the KGB about people and places and things that he'd seen and done and been involved with. This is not really espionage; there's no betrayal of trust.
Aldrich AmesThe FBI, to its credit in a self-serving sort of way, rejects the routine use of the polygraph on its own people.
Aldrich AmesI 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.
Aldrich AmesThe human spy, in terms of the American espionage effort, had never been terribly pertinent.
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