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 handed over names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union.

The difficulties of conducting espionage against the Soviet Union in the Soviet Union were such that historically the Agency had backed away from the task.

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

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.

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.

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