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.

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.

I could have stopped it after they paid me the $50,000. I wouldn't even have had to go on to do more than I already had: just the double agents' names that I gave.

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

The use of the polygraph has done little more than create confusion, ambiguity and mistakes.

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

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