Aldrich Ames Quotes and its meanings

What does Aldrich Ames write about?

Aldrich Ames has written on many topics but he is most famous for his work about failure, intelligence & trust. People always share Failure quotes, Intelligence quotes, trust from his literary works.

What are the top most famous quotes by Aldrich Ames?

Here are the top most famous quotes by Aldrich Ames.

• The Soviet Union did not achieve victory over the West, so was my information inadequate to help them to victory, or did it play no particular role in their failure to achieve victory?
• I found that our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet Union.
• 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 policy.
• Our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet Union.
• Espionage, for the most part, involves finding a person who knows something or has something that you can induce them secretly to give to you. That almost always involves a betrayal of trust.
• Deciding whether to trust or credit a person is always an uncertain task.
• Let's say a Soviet exchange student back in the '70s would go back and tell the KGB about people and places and things that he'd seen and done and been involved with. This is not really espionage there's no betrayal of trust.