Aldrich AmesA collection of 12 posts

Trust

Espionage for the most part involves finding a person who knows something or h...

Trust

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

Trust

Let's say a Soviet exchange student back in the '70s would go back and...

Trust

The betrayal of trust carries a heavy taboo.

Intelligence

I found that our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never or had very seldo...

Intelligence

In my professional work with the Agency by the late '70s I had come to qu...

Intelligence

Our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never or had very seldom produced a...

Intelligence

There are so many things a large intelligence espionage organization can do to j...

Intelligence

The resistance of policy-makers to intelligence is not just founded on an ideolo...

Intelligence

We had periodic crises in this country when the technical intelligence didn'...