“In my professional work with the Agency, by the late '70s, I had come to question the value of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms of the intelligence agency's impact on American po...”
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“In my professional work with the Agency, by the late '70s, I had come to question the value of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms of the intelligence agency's impact on American po...”
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“Because interrogations are intended to coerce confessions, interrogators feel themselves justified in using their coercive means. Consistency regarding the technique is not important; induci...”
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“Foreign Ministry guys don't become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not to volunteer to Western intelligence agencies.”
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“You might as well ask why a middle-aged man with no criminal record might put a paper bag over his head and rob a bank. I acted out of personal desperation.”
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“The use of the polygraph has done little more than create confusion, ambiguity and mistakes.”
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“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.”
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“The FBI, to its credit in a self-serving sort of way, rejects the routine use of the polygraph on its own people.”
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“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.”
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