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	Aldrich Ames - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Aldrich Hazen Ames (born June 16, 1941 in River Falls, Wisconsin) is a former Central Intelligence Agency counter-intelligence officer and analyst, who in 1994 was convicted of spying for the Soviet Union.
		They were later convicted; Ames received a sentence of life imprisonment, and his wife received a 5-year prison sentence for conspiracy to commit espionage and tax evasion as part of a plea-bargain by Ames.
		According to the Federal Bureau of Prisons, Aldrich Ames is currently housed in the Butner Federal Correctional Complex in Butner, North Carolina.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Aldrich_Ames (779 words)

	Aldrich Ames, CIA
		Aldrich Ames arrest as an alleged Soviet mole in the CIA raises serious question about both the CIA's past and future as an espionage services.
		Ames is said to have identified to the KGB the 10 CIA agents in the Soviet Union which were supplying the CIA with data.
		Ames, who had access to counterintelligence files, would be in a position to provide the KGB with a roster of candidates.
	www.edwardjayepstein.com /archived/amesalone.htm (1114 words)

	CNN - Cold War Experience: Espionage
		Aldrich Ames was probably the most damaging mole in CIA history.
		A career agency official, Ames began selling U.S. secrets to the KGB in 1985; within a decade he had revealed more than 100 covert operations and betrayed at least 30 agents, 10 of whom were later executed by the Soviets.
		Ames was interviewed for the COLD WAR series in March 1998.
	www.cnn.com /SPECIALS/cold.war/experience/spies/interviews/ames (2053 words)

	NOVA Online \| Secrets, Lies, and Atomic Spies \| Aldrich Hazen Ames
		Aldrich Ames, an American CIA official arrested in 1994 on charges of committing espionage for the Soviets and later Russia, has earned the dubious distinction of perpetrating the most expensive security breach in CIA history.
		Ames stayed off their radar, however, for several years, while the search highlighted two other CIA insiders, an agent who had defected in 1985, and a Marine security guard who was convicted in 1985 of espionage at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow.
		Ames is serving a life sentence for espionage without the possibility of parole.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/nova/venona/dece_ames.html (612 words)

	IG Report of Ames Investigation
		Ames states that the primary motivating factor for his decision to commit espionage was his desperation regarding financial indebtedness he incurred at the time of his separation from his first wife, their divorce settlement and his cohabitation with Rosario.
		Ames claims he conceived of a one-time "scam" directed against the Soviets to obtain the $50,000 he believed he needed to satisfy his outstanding debt in return for information about Agency operations he believed were actually controlled by the Soviets.
		Ames was also known to have purchased a Jaguar automobile and to have Filipino servants whom he had flown to and from the Philippines.
	www.loyola.edu /dept/politics/intel/hitzrept.html (9410 words)

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		The principal deficiency in the Ames case was the failure to ensure that the Agency employed its best efforts and adequate resources in determining on a timely basis the cause, including the possibility of a human penetration, of the compromises in 1985-86 of essentially its entire cadre of Soviet sources.
		Ames completed this tour with SE Division by being selected by the SE Division Chief as one of the primary debriefers for the defector Vitaly Yurchenko from August to September 1985.
		Ames was far less successful--and indeed was generally judged a failure--in overseas assignments where the development and recruitment of assets was the key measure of his performance.
	nsi.org /Library/Espionage/Hitzreport.html (9403 words)

	THE ALDRICH H. AMES CASE: AN ASSESSMENT OF CIA'S ROLE IN IDENTIFYING AMES AS AN INTELLIGENCE PENETRATION OF THE AGENCY
		The principal deficiency in the Ames case was the failure to ensure that the Agency employed its best efforts and adequate resources in determining on a timely basis the cause, including the possibility of a human penetration, of the compromises in 19 85-86 of essentially its entire cadre of Soviet sources.
		Ames completed this tour with SE Division by being selected by the SE Division Chief as one of the primary debriefers for the def ector Vitaly Yurchenko from August to September 1985.
		The information obtained as a result of the Ames financial review, especially the correlation betwee n deposits made by the Ameses and the operational meetings, was an essential element in shifting the focus of the molehunt toward Ames and paving the way, both psychologically and factually, for the further investigation that resulted in his arrest.
	www.tscm.com /Hitzreport.html (9469 words)

	Federal Bureau of Investigation - FBI History - Famous Cases
		Aldrich Hazen Ames was arrested by the FBI in Arlington, Virginia on espionage charges on February 24, 1994.
		Ames was a CIA case officer, who spoke Russian and specialized in the Russian intelligence services, including the KGB, the USSR's foreign intelligence service.
		Following their arrest and guilty pleas, Ames was debriefed by FBI Special Agents, at which time he detailed compromising the identities of CIA and FBI human sources, some of whom were executed by USSR authorities.
	www.fbi.gov /libref/historic/famcases/ames/ames.htm (687 words)

	An Assessment of the Aldrich H. Ames Espionage Case and Its Implications
		Ames had been an employee of CIA for 31 years, with most of his career spent in the Directorate of Operations, which is responsible for carrying out CIA clandestine operations around the globe.
		Ames would subsequently state that he might not have made the decision to commit espionage in April of 1985 if he had known that he was going to be polygraphed the next year.
		Ames recalls being "very anxious and tremendously worried" when he was in formed that he was scheduled for a polygraph exam in May of 1986, one year after he had begun his espionage activity for the KGB.
	www.globalsecurity.org /intell/library/congress/1994_rpt/ssci_ames.htm (18767 words)

	December 9, 1998: Winchell, Aldrich Ames: Traitor Within (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		In Showtime's Aldrich Ames: Traitor Within, CIA Agent Aldrich Ames (Timothy Hutton) is as mild-mannered and retiring as Winchell is abrasive and flamboyant.
		In 1985, after 20 years of faithful service with the agency, Ames is still being passed over for promotions; disillusioned and frustrated, and saddled with a greedy Colombian wife, Rosario (Elizabeth Peña), Ames decides to sell information to the KGB and use the money to pay off his spiraling debts.
		The appeal of Aldrich Ames: Traitor Within is its air of inevitability--we know he's going to be exposed, but we don't know exactly when.
	www.lasvegasweekly.com /departments/12_09_98/tv_winchell.html (858 words)

	Spies in America
		Ames, whose father was a CIA analyst, entered the CIA as a trainee in 1962 while in college.
		In 1985, with the help of his wife, he began to sell secrets to the KGB and before they were caught had betrayed more than 100 operations and were paid nearly $3 million by the Soviet Union and Russia.
		Ames, a 31-year CIA veteran, was sentenced to life in prison without parole after pleading guilty to charges of conspiracy to commit espionage as well as tax fraud.
	www.factmonster.com /spot/spies1.html (675 words)

	CIA Traitor Aldrich Ames
		Aldrich Hazen Ames repeats the word out loud as if he is shocked by it.
		During the nine years that he worked for the KGB as a mole, Ames single handily shut down the CIA’s eyes and ears in the Soviet Union by telling the Russians in 1985 the names of every “human asset” that the U.S. had working for it there.
		Although Ames didn’t know most of the spies whom he betrayed, one of them was a Soviet diplomat whom he considered to be one of his best friends.
	www.crimelibrary.com /terrorists_spies/spies/ames/1.html (927 words)

	Aldrich Ames
		At least ten of the agents on Ames' list were subsequently assassinated as a direct result of his leak.
		Ames was arrested in 1994 when 144 reports were found in his possession, none of which had anything to do with his duties.
		He received a life sentence; his wife Rosario, who was complicit in some of the activities, was sentenced to five years for conspiracy and tax evasion.
	www.nndb.com /people/459/000045324 (176 words)

	DCI on Clandestine Services and Damage Caused by Aldrich Ames
		Nonetheless, I am convinced that when the full history of the Cold War is written, American intelligence--and human intelligence in particular--will be recognized as having played an important role in winning that war.
		Aldrich Ames' espionage on behalf of the Soviet Union and Russia from April 1985 through February 1994 caused severe, wide-ranging and continuing damage to US national security interests.
		Taken as a whole, Ames' activities also facilitated the Soviet, and later the Russian, effort to engage in "perception management operations" by feeding carefully selected information to the United States through agents whom they were controlling without our knowledge.
	www.loyola.edu /dept/politics/hula/dec95dci.html (3481 words)

	CNN - CIA: Spy Ames did serious damage - Oct. 31, 1995 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		While Ames was working for the Soviet KGB, Deutch confirmed, he identified many U.S. spies to the Soviets, resulting in their arrest and execution.
		Ames also allowed the Soviets, and later the Russians, to control other agents and feed flawed intelligence to the United States.
		In what he called the "most troubling" finding of the damage assessment, Deutch said flawed intelligence was allowed to remain in so-called blue border reports given to top policy makers, including presidents Reagan and Bush.
	www-cgi.cnn.com /US/9510/ames (301 words)

	CNN - Ames' damage called 'mind-boggling' - Oct. 31, 1995
		WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Aldrich Ames spied for the Soviet Union and then Russia for nine years before his arrest last year.
		In a closed session before Congress Tuesday, CIA Director John Deutch gave his assessment of how badly Ames damaged U.S. intelligence.
		"Nobody could be more indignant than I am as a former consumer of this high level intelligence." (144K AIFF sound or 144K WAV sound)
	www.cnn.com /US/9510/ames/pm (509 words)

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