Word: ameses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ames made an opening statement. He had participated in a number of debriefings on the other side of the table, and he would handle this one in a professional manner, as he would have done if he were still in his former role. The debriefers went along with that. The...
Rudy Guerin, looking more like a young English professor than an FBI agent, led the session. Did Ames know of any other moles in the CIA? No. In other agencies of the U.S. government? No. It was near lunchtime, and sandwiches were brought in. Ames chain-smoked through the session...
Then the debriefing took a dramatic and unexpected turn. Ames explained how worried he was in late 1985 and early 1986 when the Soviets so swiftly arrested the agents he had betrayed. He had talked to the KGB in Rome about it and said that the sudden loss of agents...
Ames looked at Jeanne Vertefeuille, who sat across the table from him.
Now there are a lot of reasons why this scenario is patently ridiculous, not least among them the fact that no one in his right mind would turn to the U.N. to pacify a vast and unruly nation like the U.S., not when Bosnian Serbs defy U.N. troops as if...