I trafficked with the devil. This I hadn't factored in. Perhaps my information hurt the Soviet Union more than it helped. My reporting probably helped Gorbachev in his intra-party struggle to push glasnost and to push these reformist views in the Soviet Union. The disappearance of those Soviet sources, their drying up, appeared to have had no effect on our intelligence collection and our ability to understand what's going on in the Soviet Union.
Espionage revolves around the many different forms of betrayals of trust.
An interview with Aldrich Ames Aldrich Ames was probably the most damaging mole in CIA history. He was convicted and sentenced to life in prison without parole. Ames was interviewed for the COLD WAR series in March 1998. I discovered that my growing misgivings were even truer than I had thought. And I found myself looking around me at the history of our Soviet espionage program with some amazement and some feeling that my earlier doubts had been confirmed in spades.