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.

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

The U.S. is, so far as I know, the only nation which places such extensive reliance on the polygraph. It has gotten us into a lot of trouble.

The resistance of policy-makers to intelligence is not just founded on an ideological presupposition. They distrust intelligence sources and intelligence officials because they don't understand what the real problems are.

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.

I'm a traitor, but I don't consider myself a traitor.

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