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Look no further. The personal effects of luxury-loving confessed spy Aldrich (Rick) Ames will be auctioned off this week at the upscale Galleria Centre near Atlanta. The sale will be conducted by Manheim Auctions, a nationwide firm that is contracted to dispose of all goods confiscated by federal agencies like the FBI, which earlier this year laid claim to the property amassed by Ames and his wife Rosario while the former CIA analyst was supplementing his $69,000 salary with appreciative bonuses from...
About a month after its Senate counterpart delivered ascathing assessment of the CIA's handlingof the Aldrich Ames spy scandal, the House Intelligence Committee weighed in today with a verdict that the agency took a "negligent attitude" in trying to find the mole and stop him from damaging worldwide U.S. intelligence operations. Rep. Dan Glickman (D-Kan.), the committee chairman, called the Ames affair "a case of sloppiness in big capital letters" -- in part because the CIA didn't tell Congress it suspected a double-agent was loose in its ranks. The FBI also came under fire for being "inexplicably...
...scathing report, the Senate Intelligence Committee accused the CIA of gross ineptitude for failing to unearth agency mole Aldrich Ames during a period of nine years. Ames' sale of secrets to the Soviets -- the most damaging security breach in U.S. spy history -- is believed to have cost the lives of at least 10 agents behind the Iron Curtain and compromised more than 100 operations. The committee blasted the agency for its inability to investigate itself and properly recognize Ames' suspicious activities. The panel also criticized Director R. James Woolsey for his mild reprimands of those responsible for the botched probe...
...Senate committee today delivered a scathing assessment of theCIA's handling of the Aldrich Ames spy scandal, saving its hardest slam forCIA Director R. James Woolsey, who reprimanded 11 senior CIA officials last month, but fired no one. TheSenate Intelligence Committeesaid Woolsey's "mild" actions were "seriously inadequate and disproportionate to the problems." It also faulted former CIA directors William Casey, William Webster and Robert Gates -- agency chiefs during Ames'nine years of spyingfor Moscow -- for their role in an intelligence debacle which led to the executions of a dozen Soviet double agents and left the U.S. spy network...
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...