I have no spy stories to tell, because I saw no spies. Nor did I understand, at that time, any opposition between American and Russian national interest.

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  The Communists automatically violated the daily practices of democracy to which I was accustomed.

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  To be a member of the Communist Party is to have a taste of the police state. It is a diluted taste

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