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Then in November 1989, the CIA received its first tip pointing to Aldrich Ames. A woman employee of the agency who knew Ames well reported that he had bought an expensive house and was living beyond his means. (Ames had been earning around $50,000 a year in 1985 when he first became a traitor.) The informant also knew that Ames had access to the compromised Soviet cases. And she knew that his wife Rosario did not come from a wealthy family. Based on this information, the CIA's Dan Payne, a young man who was the only investigator assigned...
This time the agency invoked legal provisions allowing it to query banks and credit companies. In June responses began to flow in, and the task force learned for the first time that Aldrich and Rosario Ames were spending at least $30,000 a month with credit cards. By August the team knew that hundreds of thousands of dollars had been deposited in Ames' accounts in the Dominion Bank of Virginia, much of the money from wire transfers of undetermined origin. As the mole hunters dug into Ames' bank accounts in the fall of 1992, they discovered that by that time...
...secrecy and precision the militias envision. After all, government is run by the same people who once paid $640 for toilet-seat covers, who went ahead with the initial raid on the Branch Davidians even though they knew David Koresh had been forewarned, who couldn't figure out that Aldrich Ames was selling secrets to the Soviet Union even when the $70,000-a-year cia officer moved into a half-million-dollar mansion and began driving to work in a spiffy new Jaguar. While government might seem faceless and all-powerful to outsiders, insiders know it's an organization...
...vote of 98 to 0, the Senate confirmed the nomination of Deputy Defense Secretary John Deutch to become the new director of the C.I.A. Deutch will arrive at the troubled spy agency, which has been demoralized by the Aldrich Ames and other scandals, with a mandate to review priorities, revamp operations and replace top personnel...
Gennadi Varenik was a KGB major working in Bonn under cover as a correspondent for TASS, the Soviet news agency, when he was suddenly recalled to Moscow in November 1985. Four months earlier, Aldrich Ames had told the Soviets that Varenik was spying for the cia. He was charged with that crime, tried and executed. This was a murderous tragedy, mentioned briefly in David Wise's book. It also represented a significant setback for the U.S. TIME's investigation of the Varenik case over the past three months reveals that he was one of the most promising KGB double agents...