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"I could have stopped it after they paid me the $50,000. I wouldn't even have had to go on to do more than I already had: just the double agents' names that I gave."
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"Well, I was making a record, and I had to choose a name, because they said, you know, you can't make a record under the name of Reg Dwight, because it's never going to - you know, it's not attractive enough."
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"Whatever you do gives you the name it gives."
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"Since you knew they was goin' to cheat you anyway, I recorded under any name with all of 'em."
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"Deep Throat was a very unfortunate name given to the source by the managing editor of The Washington Post."
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"I think they are looking for publicity and they are looking for a name for themselves."
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"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet."
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"Bob Marley isn't my name. I don't even know my name yet."
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"I remember a couple of instrumental albums, just don't ask the names."
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"The stuff we did under the name the Rentals got so chaotic."
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"By the early '70s I had gotten reasonable and I started to get in hundreds of groups that rehearsed and never played at all. I mean, the most important thing was to look good and have a great name."
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"The use of the polygraph has done little more than create confusion, ambiguity and mistakes."
Ambiguity
"The difficulties of conducting espionage against the Soviet Union in the Soviet Union were such that historically the Agency had backed away from the task."
Difficulty
"There are so many things a large intelligence espionage organization can do to justify its existence, that people can get promotions for, because it could result in results."
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"When I handed over the names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union, I had come to the conclusion that the loss of these sources to the U.S. would not compromise significant national defense, political, diplomatic interests."
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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 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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"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."
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"Our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet Union."
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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 policy."
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"When I got the money, the whole burden descended on me, and the realization of what I had done. And it led me then to make the further step, a change of loyalties."
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