The Fourth Man Quotes

“The CIA couldn’t hope to recruit a source in the Kremlin without first cleaning its own house of Russian moles, and the only sure way to accomplish that would be to recruit a Russian spy who knew about them.”
― Robert Baer, The Fourth Man: The Hunt for the KGB’s CIA Mole and Why the US Overlooked Putin

“The CIA couldn’t hope to recruit a source in the Kremlin without first cleaning its own house of Russian moles, and the only sure way to accomplish that would be to recruit a Russian spy who knew about”
― Robert Baer, The Fourth Man: The Hunt for the KGB’s CIA Mole and Why the US Overlooked Putin

“It also was enough for a judge to authorize the FBI to secretly break into Ames’s house and search it. Finding incontrovertible evidence he was a Russian double agent, the FBI arrested Ames on February 21, 1994, and quickly extracted a confession of espionage from him. He copped to betraying in 1985 nearly a dozen CIA and FBI Soviet agents. He’d done it for money, banally fencing the CIA’s crown jewels to treat himself to a new Jaguar and suburban spread. It was an act of treason from which the CIA would never”
― Robert B. Baer, The Fourth Man: The Hunt for a KGB Spy at the Top of the CIA and the Rise of Putin's Russia