Word: aldrich
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...MacGaffin, the No. 2 man in the agency's clandestine branch, and Frank Anderson, the head of Near East operations -- ran afoul of Woolsey for giving an award to one of the CIA officials whom Woolsey had criticized just last month for the agency's failure to detect mole Aldrich Ames. Congressional overseers expressed concern that the incident might suggest that Woolsey faces problems of insubordination...
That wise counsel was ignored, as was a profusion of red flags that marked the sorry career of 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...
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...
...clout in Washington will not be increased by the controversy. The CIA already is under fire as a bloated bureaucracy still gripped by a cold war mind-set. It has been accused of discrimination against its female agents, and of incompetent handling of the case of Aldrich Ames, * the mole who betrayed many agents to the Soviets...
...could almost conclude not only that no one was watching, but that no one cared." Such was the frank admission of CIA Director R. James Woolsey regarding the most damaging security lapse in the agency's history: the breach that let Aldrich Ames compromise dozens of cia operations and fatally unmask key U.S. agents behind the Iron Curtain. Nonetheless, Woolsey announced that no one would be dismissed or demoted as a result of the spectacular fiasco; 11 current and retired officials will get only reprimands. The wrist slap triggered an outburst of congressional anger, including one suggestion that...