The betrayal of trust carries a heavy taboo.

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

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Deciding whether to trust or credit a person is always an uncertain task.

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

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The human spy, in terms of the American espionage effort, had never been terribly pertinent.

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The use of the polygraph has done little more than create confusion, ambiguity and mistakes.

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My little scam in April '85 went like this: Give me $50,000; here's some names of some people we've recruited.

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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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By the late '70s I had come to question the point of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms of the CIA's overall charter.

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

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