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Afghan hand Bearden, who later ran the CIA's Soviet branch and was censured for his role in the Aldrich Ames fiasco, insists that the agency must be willing to deal with shady characters and accept that they occasionally go bad. "You have to make it clear-cut that you have moral standards, and you yourself have to be unswerving in them," he says, citing his own refusal to allow government contacts in Sudan to engage in torture, even when it might have helped foil plots on his own life. But, he says, it is harder for CIA officers...
...charged, in a highly publicized case, that the agency had falsely accused her of sexual promiscuity and alcoholism after she turned in her male deputy for beating his wife. As it turned out, Brookner had been one of the few Directorate officers who had tried to get Aldrich Ames fired for security breaches, 10 years before the FBI unmasked him for selling secrets to the KGB. As part of Brookner's settlement, the agency promised her a letter of recommendation in exchange for her silence on the details of the case. However, says Victoria Toensing, Brookner's lawyer, the agency...
...Harvard Business School will award 802master of business administration (M.B.A.) andfour doctor of business administration (D.B.A.)degrees. An afternoon ceremony will take place infront of the Business School's Aldrich Hall inAllston, according to Business School RegistrarCoral A. Sullivan...
...wife, who never knew of Varenik's contacts with the Americans, still doesn't believe he was a double agent. "My husband was a man of crystal clarity who loved his country passionately," she says. "He was absolutely incapable of committing any treachery against his family and homeland." Like Aldrich Ames, he was capable of such things. Unlike his betrayer Aldrich Ames, he paid for it with his life...
...Until Aldrich Ames turned him in. In 1990 the Soviets announced that Polyakov had been caught; they later said he had been executed in 1988. Polyakov had been one of a kind. "He didn't do this for money," the CIA's Jeanne Vertefeuille told a colleague. "He insisted on staying in place to help us." Tears came in her eyes when she spoke of the general...