Word: aldrich
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Like the never-ending snowfalls which announce themselves just as we think winter is finally over, Aldrich Ames hits the press to remind us that the Cold War is not so distant a memory (apt comparison, no? We think so.). Of course, we all know he's being set up, but that doesn't stop the story from being far more interesting and revealing than Whitewater. Give the scandal a rest, guys...
...August afternoon in 1985, Aldrich Hazen Ames exchanged vows with Maria del Rosario Casas Dupuy in a charming little church nestled by a hill in Arlington, Virginia. It was the bridegroom's second marriage, the bride's first. The small knot of family members and friends, sweltering in the humid, 87 degreesF air, might have expected to be rewarded with a meal for their attendance. But after the ceremony, guests were offered only wine. Ames explained that he couldn't afford a fancy reception because the cost of his previous marriage's breakup had cleaned him out. Guests...
...Aldrich ("Rick") Ames was an improbable spy -- which is probably why he made such a good one for so many years. Born in River Falls, Wisconsin, in 1941, Ames was part of a highly respected local clan. His paternal grandfather J.H. Ames served for three decades as president of River Falls Teacher's $ College, his father Carleton taught history at the college for 14 years, and his mother Rachel graduated from the school. In 1951 Carleton and Rachel moved their son and two daughters to Virginia, where Rachel got a teaching job and Carleton became an analyst with...
...employee Aldrich Hazen Ames and his wife Maria del Rosario Casas Ames were arrested last week and charged with spying for Russia. The fact that they were accused of accepting $1.5 million and spending it on such flashy items as a Jaguar and a $540,000 home (paid in cash) raised a few eyebrows. But a taste for luxury has been an essential component of the nouveau riche traitor life- style for at least a decade...
...level officer in the CIA's Soviet counterintelligence section was arrested and charged with spying for Moscow beginning in the mid-1980s. Prosecutors suspect that Aldrich Hazen Ames and his Colombian-born wife passed on information that, among other things, betrayed at least 10 Soviet nationals, some of whom were apparently executed in Moscow as spies for the U.S. Ames' attorney says he will fight the charges and warned of a prolonged and very public trial that might betray agency secrets. In Congress the case drew angry calls for the suspension of U.S. aid to Russia. The Clinton Administration...