John W. Whiteside III > Quotes

“Who is the agent going to complain to, the FBI?”
― John W Whiteside III, Fool's Mate: A True Story of Espionage at the National Security Agency

“The assassin took an antidote just before firing a capsule of gaseous prussic acid into the face of the victim.”
― John W Whiteside III, Fool's Mate: A True Story of Espionage at the National Security Agency

“the cabbie immediately replied, “Oh, you want to go to MI-6!”
― John W Whiteside III, Fool's Mate: A True Story of Espionage at the National Security Agency

“she would look up, bat her eyelids, say she couldn’t remember, or provide a vague answer. After watching this behavior for an hour or so Whiteside was convinced that Pat was covering up. She knew about Lipka’s espionage activities. It was simply the clearest example of nonverbal communication Whiteside had ever seen.”
― John W Whiteside III, Fool's Mate: A True Story of Espionage at the National Security Agency

“the subject will be tired and hopefully more psychologically willing to confess.”
― John W Whiteside III, Fool's Mate: A True Story of Espionage at the National Security Agency

“To maintain that security, Barb Cohan gave their minicab driver only the street address for their destination—but”
― John W Whiteside III, Fool's Mate: A True Story of Espionage at the National Security Agency

“Two NSA employees had actually played Zaitsev, and both lost.”
― John W Whiteside III, Fool's Mate: A True Story of Espionage at the National Security Agency

“We shouldn’t be too much longer. We only have a few more follow-up questions to ask.”
― John W Whiteside III, Fool's Mate: A True Story of Espionage at the National Security Agency

“Bandera breathed in the gas and was poisoned, which caused a fatal heart attack. The assassin was close enough that he, too, breathed some of the gas, but he survived because he’d taken the antidote.”
― John W Whiteside III, Fool's Mate: A True Story of Espionage at the National Security Agency

“The interview, or “interrogation” in FBI agent talk, plan relied on a slow build-up of tension. They wouldn’t simply go over a timeline, or a specific event in Pat and Bob’s life together, but they’d take their time and go slowly and methodically over everything.”
― John W Whiteside III, Fool's Mate: A True Story of Espionage at the National Security Agency

“Zaitsev played against all the other players, moving from chess board to chess board, and won every game.”
― John W Whiteside III, Fool's Mate: A True Story of Espionage at the National Security Agency

“Lipka may be telling the truth that he was cheated by the KGB on some of his payments. We know they’ve done that to agents in the past.”
― John W Whiteside III, Fool's Mate: A True Story of Espionage at the National Security Agency

“Being in unfamiliar surroundings also makes the subject less comfortable, and prevents him or her from diverting interrogation pressure to familiar items in the home.”
― John W Whiteside III, Fool's Mate: A True Story of Espionage at the National Security Agency

“clandestine activities in Rock Creek Park in Washington, DC where he made previous drops for the KGB. The park had numbered picnic areas with picnic tables located in each secluded area that he may have used.”
― John W Whiteside III, Fool's Mate: A True Story of Espionage at the National Security Agency

“but the interrogation is designed to place pressure on the person being interviewed. Third parties are sometimes also confederates of the interviewee, or make comments that disrupt the flow of information.”
― John W Whiteside III, Fool's Mate: A True Story of Espionage at the National Security Agency

“best time to begin the interrogation is late in the day, after the investigators have had a long rest and the subject has been awake all day.”
― John W Whiteside III, Fool's Mate: A True Story of Espionage at the National Security Agency

“When someone supportive is present the interviewee feels comfortable,”
― John W Whiteside III, Fool's Mate: A True Story of Espionage at the National Security Agency

“aware of the opportunity both the Americans and the Soviets had to recruit each other as spies in this chess league, but both sides respected the game and tacitly agreed to leave business behind.”
― John W Whiteside III, Fool's Mate: A True Story of Espionage at the National Security Agency

“At the time MI-6 officially did not exist to the public.”
― John W Whiteside III, Fool's Mate: A True Story of Espionage at the National Security Agency

“Lipka was referring to a KGB assassin who murdered Stefan Bandera, an exiled Ukrainian leader.”
― John W Whiteside III, Fool's Mate: A True Story of Espionage at the National Security Agency