Word: aldrich
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...recent arrest of Aldrich H. Ames has, for the first time in a while, returned to the front pages of our morning dailies the issue of spying, and specifically, spying in the context of the forgotten but not gone Cold...
...Aldrich Ames spied against his own, he ought to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. And as a society that is rightfully pessimistic about its own collective health, we ought to be shocked and dismayed by yet another sign of our state of "fallenness"--the rise of the bourgeois...
Late last Tuesday evening, a plane departed from Washington with an unusual passenger list: two high-level officials from the CIA bound for Moscow. The delegation's mission was straightforward if somewhat naive: give Russian authorities a chance to limit the diplomatic fallout caused by the arrest of Aldrich Ames, the American accused of spying for Moscow. To do that, the CIA officials insisted, the Russians must honor a previous promise to cut the number of their spies operating in the U.S. by half and identify their top intelligence officers in New York City and San Francisco. Most important, Moscow...
...timing could hardly have been worse for Director of Central Intelligence R. James Woolsey. With the embarrassing Aldrich Ames spy case spread across the nation's front pages last week, Woolsey had to go up to Capitol Hill for one of his public sessions before the House Select Committee on Intelligence. The small hearing room in the Rayburn Building was jammed, and Woolsey's bald head reflected the glare of television lights as he announced he would have nothing to say in open session about the details of the Ames case. The committee chairman, Democrat Dan Glickman of Kansas, accepted...
...story of Aldrich H. Ames' $2.7 million, 7 year spying spree comes to light in dribs and drabs, James "Jesus" Angleton must be doing cartwheels in his grave. Angleton, only posthumously biographized, but long lengendary in the spook community, was the CIA's both hopelessly paranoid and devastatingly effective spy-catcher. He was a man who for thirty years drove himself (and others) crazy trying to stop spy scandals before they got started...