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?

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

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

I knew quite well, when I gave the names of our agents in the Soviet Union, that I was exposing them to the full machinery of counterespionage and the law, and then prosecution and capital punishment.

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 only thing I ever withheld from the KGB were the names of two agents whom I personally had known and handled and had a particular feeling for.

An espionage organization is a collector: it collects raw information. That gets processed by a machinery that is supposed to resolve its reliability, and to present a finished product.