The betrayal of trust carries a heavy taboo.
Let's say a Soviet exchange student back in the '70s would go back and tell...
Deciding whether to trust or credit a person is always an uncertain task.
Espionage for the most part involves finding a person who knows something...
Foreign Ministry guys don't become agents. Party officials the Foreign...
We had periodic crises in this country when the technical intelligence didn't...
The resistance of policy-makers to intelligence is not just founded on an...
There are so many things a large intelligence espionage organization can do...
Our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never or had very seldom...
In my professional work with the Agency by the late '70s I had come to...
I found that our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never or had very...
The Soviet Union did not achieve victory over the West so was my information...
I'm not going to have a perfect career. It's better to be Billy Wilder and make lots of movies and have five or six great ones than to make so few movies that when you make a bad one it crushes you.