Klaus Fuchs Quotes

I said in court a long time ago that I didn't see that the Soviet Union was significantly helped by the information I gave them, nor that the United States was significantly harmed.

There can be no history without archives.

History written today is much more accurate than history written in the 18th century.

Sir, I see a lot of documents in my day-to-day business, and I can't tell you every document that I've seen. It may have passed across my desk. It may not have passed across my desk. I truthfully cannot answer that question, other than to say I don't remember.

In the Iraq war, for instance, so much of the information is digitized and can easily be wiped out. That will make it very hard to write accurate histories. Also, there's a much greater opportunity for suppression of information before it can even be archived.

You should keep a copy of your tax return indefinitely, but you need to save supporting documents for only three years.

If there was a day that history was not recorded, then the history of one hundred days would be in peril.

Whenever you have multiple devices including multiple PCs that you want to share information with, it's always been a bit complicated.

We've learned a lot about how information needs to flow effectively amongst a group of people. They need to be fed information, and it needs to be on this constant conveyor belt.

I'm so concerned with morgues and libraries of the newspapers.

I have never met a document I don't like.

Michael Cohen is one of the world's greatest evidence hoarders. He rarely threw anything away.

Some archives and record offices are housed in your local museum or library; others have their own stand-alone building. Wherever they are, they are a treasure trove.

Where protection of certain sensitive information is well-founded, I remain committed to upholding the laws and longstanding policies governing classification and public release.

Portability of lots of information should not be underestimated.

It was a little skirmish across a century.

I reported everything I was given, even if I didn't keep - I did not keep the vast majority of it.

I made an effort to find out what was in the building at Wright Patterson Air Force Base where the information is stored that has been collected by the Air Force, and I was understandably denied this request. It is still classified above Top Secret.

Only a very small number of the e-mails containing classified information bore markings indicating the presence of classified information. But even if information is not marked 'classified' in an e-mail, participants who know or should know that the subject matter is classified are still obligated to protect it.

My understanding is that espionage means giving secret or classified information to the enemy. Since Snowden shared information with the American people, his indictment for espionage could reveal (or confirm) that the US Government views you and me as the enemy.

You couldn't trust anyone or anything that belonged to the world of espionage.

We're living in a technological world. You cannot tell me we can't do a better job getting that information.

I think it's kind of a stretch. You know, it's one thing if somebody working for the U.S. government has sold secrets to the other side, it's another if they have something in their personal life that they're hiding for which they could be blackmailed. Having evidence that they didn't tell the truth to somebody in the same building where they work, maybe it's just the old intel guy, is - it's a problem.

I'll turn the page on a growing empire of classified information. We'll protect sources and methods, but we won't use sources and methods to hide the truth.

Bringing together the right information with the right people will dramatically improve a company's ability to develop and act on strategic business opportunities.