Word: agent
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...incompetence written all over him. A pre-employment psychological assessment found him lacking the people skills essential for spy work. Yet the CIA, desperate for warm bodies during the Vietnam War, hired him anyway. His first boss, the station chief in Ankara, Turkey, warned that the new agent was so inept at recruiting agents that he should never be sent to the field again...
...Aldrich Hazen Ames, 53, who was finally convicted last April after spying nine years for the Soviet Union. Intelligence documents obtained last week by TIME, including parts of the CIA inspector general's report on the Ames case, illustrate how badly the agency bungled its handling of the agent. Strong evidence of his poor performance, and later his treason, were ignored for years by an old-boy network that included friends of Ames' father Carleton, himself a hard-drinking CIA veteran...
Tensions between the Old Guard and CIA Director James Woolsey, a political appointee, erupted last week when Woolsey learned that two top agency officials had on Sept. 29 given an award to a retiring field officer under investigation in the Ames case. That agent, Milton Bearden, who has retired as chief of the CIA station in Bonn, is widely respected for his work in helping Muslim rebels drive Soviet troops out of Afghanistan. But Bearden has also been reprimanded for his inattention to Ames' activities when he was the spy's boss in 1989. Woolsey had ordered that none...
Look at Brian Farrell '94. Coming off a stellar senior season in the Harvard hockey program, he was given a tryout by his favorite professional team, the Pittsburgh Penguins of the NHL. As a non-drafted free agent, his chances were slim and none of making the big-time so soon, and yet he startled a lot of people in camp, even making the Penguins' final West Coast road trip of the exhibition season...
Rosario Ames, the wife of America's most dangerous double agent in recent history, was sentenced to five years in prison for aiding her husband Aldrich Ames. It was the minimum she could receive under the terms of her plea bargain. Meanwhile, hubby Aldrich is serving a life sentence without the prospect of parole. For almost a decade, Ames spied for the Soviet Union and then Russia. Prosecutors claim he was responsible for the death of at least 10 CIA agents. Rosario pleaded for leniency so she could take care of their son Paul, now living with relatives...