He'd have a natural interest in what a Russian spymaster had to say, ... It turned out later that he was the person Hanssen originally sent his letter to apply for his job at the KGB.

The whole idea of the NSA is intercepting huge streams of communications, taking in 2 million pieces of communications an hour.

Clearly the flag was there, ... because the intercepts show that the helicopter pilots saw it immediately, before they ever even got up to the ship.

Overall, most people think [Trailblazer is] a disappointment,

Every time a Soviet plane took off, NSA knew about it. It was pretty easy to track. Now they have to track people who use cell phones, pay phones and calling cards ... You have to be a bit optimistic to think it will work.

He was extremely outwardly religious. He was always trying to get me to go with him to one of these sessions of Opus Dei, which is a sort of a semi-secretive, conservative branch of the Catholic Church,