Word: aldrich
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...calling him the perfect man for the role of CIA director. It's a monstrous job. Three directors in the past six years have tried to drag America's $30-billion-a-year intelligence empire into the post-cold war era as ugly disclosures--especially the unmasking of traitors Aldrich Ames and Harold Nicholson--made the agency seem an unreliable relic. Why should anyone think that Tenet, a New Yorker whose Greek-immigrant parents owned a diner, can succeed...
...events yesterday were held in the Belfer Center of the KSG. The conference continues this afternoon in HBS's Aldrich Hall...
...Campus Center will face what is now the back of Aldrich Hall, forming another new quadrangle. These two quads, according to Crispi, will form two "hearts" for the Business School...
Apart from that stroke of bad timing, this authoritative reference book rides the espionage headlines exceedingly well. The Soviets' CIA mole Aldrich Ames is here, as is hot-off-the-press documentation gleaned from the long-secret U.S. "Venona" decrypts of Russian intelligence, which pretty much confirm the guilt of the late Alger Hiss. More than 2,000 entries deal with the history of spying, the complexities of cryptography and trade jargon (dry clean: to determine whether one is under surveillance; pianist: a clandestine radio operator; swallow: Russian term for a female agent assigned to seduce a target; raven...
...telling his CIA superiors he thought he could recruit the man. According to the FBI affidavit, in June 1994, one day after Nicholson's last reported meeting with the Russian, $12,000 was wired to Nicholson's savings account in Eugene, Oregon. Later agency hands would remember how Aldrich Ames had offered himself to the Russians: by getting permission to meet a Soviet agent that he told his superiors he was trying to recruit...