Aldrich Ames Quotes

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.

- Aldrich Ames

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

To the extent that I considered the personal burden of harming the people who had trusted me, plus the Agency, or the United States, I wasn't processing that. - Aldrich Ames