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Quotes by Criminal

"In general, I do not agree with spying against one's country."

"I wasn't privy to all of the intelligence that was coming in about Guatemala, but I did see the traffic that was coming in from Guatemala City, because it was very relevant to me, and of course I exchanged what I had with the chief of station in Guatemala City."

"My buddies wanted to be firemen, farmers or policemen, something like that. Not me, I just wanted to steal people's money!"

"You know, a long time ago being crazy meant something. Nowadays everybody's crazy."

"Once I've done a crime, I just forget it. I go from crime to crime."

"This American system of ours, call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you will, gives each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it."

"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."

"Additionally, borrowing a page from U.S. foreign policy, I decided to send a message to a government that was becoming increasingly hostile."


"I broke down on Thursday, Nov. 3, and told Sheriff Howard Wells the truth. It wasn't easy, but after the truth was out, I felt like the world was lifted off my shoulders."

"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."

"I explain this not for publicity, nor seeking to win an argument of right or wrong, I explain so that the record is clear as to my thinking and motivations in bombing a government installation."

"Based on observations of the policies of my own government, I viewed this action as an acceptable option."

"I've pent up all my aggression, kept swallowing it and swallowing it."

"For me Christianity is about the Kingdom, not about the Church: it has to do with human growth and development nor church growth and development."

"We do not support the man. We do not support the individual. We support the idea of independent revolution in the Western Hemisphere, free from American intervention."

"This life of ours, this is a wonderful life. If you can get through life like this and get away with it, hey that's great. But it's very predictable. There's so many ways you can screw it up."
Life,

"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."

"It is a rather pleasant experience to be alone in a bank at night."
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