Our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet Union.

U. Ames was initially "terrified" at the prospect of taking the test but he was advised by the KGB "to just relax. Several members of his family were involved in his spying activities as well.

Aldrich Hazen Ames (born May 26 1941) is a former Central Intelligence Agency counter-intelligence officer and analyst who in 1994 was convicted of spying for the Soviet Union and Russia. So far as is known Ames compromised the second-largest number of CIA assets—fewer only to those betrayed by Robert Hanssen.