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...escaped into the New Mexico desert in 1985 and surfaced in Moscow a year later. Of the cases Howard had not known about, Vertefeuille and her team were asked to determine how many might be explained by other factors, such as sloppiness on the part of either the agent or the CIA case officer...
...code name stood for both the investigation and Ames himself. Lewis chose Les Wiser, a 38-year-old FBI agent, to head the team that kept Ames and his wife under surveillance for nine months. The FBI tapped the couple's phone, bugged their house, combed through their trash, downloaded Ames' computer, followed him to Bogota and gathered the evidence it needed to prove...
Rudy Guerin, looking more like a young English professor than an FBI agent, led the session. Did Ames know of any other moles in the CIA? No. In other agencies of the U.S. government? No. It was near lunchtime, and sandwiches were brought in. Ames chain-smoked through the session, which lasted a few hours, and ate two sandwiches. The questioning went on as Guerin led Ames through the history of his espionage...
Varenik was a KGB brat--the son of a KGB colonel--and a graduate of the Andropov Red Banner Institute, which trains intelligence agents. He spent a year working at the TASS offices in Moscow preparing for his cover job. His first contact with the cia came a year after his arrival in Germany in 1981. A colleague introduced him to a CIA officer, and for more than a year, each believed he was cultivating the other as a possible double agent. Varenik abruptly broke off discussions in 1983, but the cia had passed him a secret telephone number...
...Moreover, he owed another $3,500 to colleagues. His second daughter had just been born, but he was flat broke and couldn't even pay his rent. Worst of all, Varenik had learned that a German he had recruited to spy for the U.S.S.R. was in fact a double agent working for German intelligence. Could the CIA, he asked, help fake a recruitment that would put him in the good graces...