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Aldrich Ames

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

Aldrich Ames

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Aldrich Ames is saying that spying on the Soviet Union rarely gave useful information about its politics or economy. This means their efforts to gather intelligence inside the Soviet Union were mostly unsuccessful or unproductive.

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