complete and almost verbatim records in our cable traffic. i think the issue was the security risk posed to our officers. thank you. time expired. senator blunt. thank you. thank you, chairman. miss haspel, we haven t really mentioned the broad support that you have had publicly from democrats, republicans, people who have run this agency in the past, people have associated with, frankly, people this committee has members on this committee have shown great respect and regard for have shown that same respect and regard for you. i heard general hayden, former cia director say the other day that he would be incredibly comfortable when the president was making decisions. he may have said maybe even more than comfortable. he said he would feels more secure or something like that if
he was not a true believer. so we arranged for a meeting with him in the turkish bath in the hilton hotel. we started to talk to him. he wanted a better life. he wanted to do something that he could really believe in. and ideologically he was clear ly on our side. he did not like communism. he believed that the american system was superior. all of those things kind of came together. we realized we could make a deal with him. and we did. that was aleksandr ogorodnik, a foreign ministry official for the soviet union and of course, the first issue that came up, we needed a code name for him. we could not refer to him in the cable traffic as ogorodnik. it would not be secure. so right from the beginning he became trigon. we knew that he was scheduled to
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