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Aldrich Ames

We had periodic crises in this country when the technical intelligence didn't support the policy. We had the bomber gap, the missile gap.

Aldrich Ames

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Aldrich Ames is saying that there were times when government policies were based on incorrect or misleading intelligence data. Specifically, he refers to situations where fears about military threats, like the supposed superiority of enemy bombers or missiles, were not actually backed up by accurate technical information.

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