Word: ameses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Adolf Tolkachev: On June 13, 1985, the same day Ames turned over his cache of secret CIA documents to Sergei Chuvakhin in Washington, the KGB arrested one of the CIA's key assets in Moscow. A defense researcher who was a leading expert on stealth aircraft technology, Tolkachev was identified...
From the CIA's point of view, Martynov's importance lay in his potential as a sleeper agent who might rise through the ranks and prove useful in the future. After Ames betrayed him, however, the KGB ordered him to return to Moscow in November 1985. Martynov told his wife...
Vladimir Potashov: To know what it was like to be betrayed by Ames, one has only to listen to Potashov recount his ghastly experiences. A young disarmament specialist who fed information to the CIA while working in Moscow for the prestigious Institute of U.S.A. and Canada Studies, he was arrested...
In 1982 Yuzhin went back to Moscow, and in 1986, after Ames identified him as a CIA source, the KGB took him into custody. He was sentenced to 15 years for high treason. On Feb. 7, 1992, after six years under harsh conditions in the Gulag, he was another of...
Dmitri Polyakov: The most important CIA source whom Ames betrayed was Polyakov, the legendary top hat. So valuable was Polyakov, a general in Soviet military intelligence, that the CIA provided him with special high-tech equipment that it reserved for its most important agents. He was, for example, given a...