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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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"I accept reality and dare not question it."
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"But I was thinking of a way To multiply by ten, And always, in the answer, get The question back again."
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"To be, or not to be: that is the question."
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"Just before she died she asked, What is the answer? No answer came. She laughed and said, In that case, what is the question? Then she died."
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"In life; not all questions require gentle answers, some just want you to be so stupid to answer in a stupid way."
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"Reasons... questions... what they have in common?- All get finded in the hard way."
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"Never ask a bore a question."
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"I'm always looking, and I'm always asking questions."
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"Questions... I question that... and than... soona I am going to question and my existence."
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"I was obsessed with religious questions, the basics: Why are we here? Why is the world so beautiful?"
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"I knew quite well, when I gave the names of our agents in the Soviet Union, that I was exposing them to the full machinery of counterespionage and the law, and then prosecution and capital punishment."
Law
"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."
Desperation
"I said in court a long time ago that I didn't see that the Soviet Union was significantly helped by the information I gave them, nor that the United States was significantly harmed."
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"The human spy, in terms of the American espionage effort, had never been terribly pertinent."
American
"I came into the Agency with a set of ideas and attitudes that were quite typical of people coming into the Agency at that time. You could call it liberal anti-communism."
Time
"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."
Trust
"Foreign Ministry guys don't become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not to volunteer to Western intelligence agencies."
Intelligence
"Because interrogations are intended to coerce confessions, interrogators feel themselves justified in using their coercive means. Consistency regarding the technique is not important; inducing anxiety and fear is the point."
Fear
"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."
Intelligence
"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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