Word: ameses
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During the course of the next 12 months, Ames lunched with Chuvakhin at least 14 times. He had a perfect cover because his CIA superiors had authorized him to meet with Soviet officials to try to recruit them. At his lunches with Chuvakhin, he continued providing all sorts of classified...
The CIA now knew that Ames had bought a half-million-dollar house in cash, that he was putting large chunks of cash in the bank and that he was an officer with access to the blown Soviet cases. It also knew from the informant that his wife's family...
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...
Ames seemed almost within the mole hunters' grasp, but he slipped away. In January 1990, Dan Payne was assigned to begin a two-month training course. No one was brought in to replace him. When he returned in March, he was pulled off the Ames investigation and sent overseas to...
From July 1986 until July 1989, Ames served in Rome as a CIA officer at the American embassy. During his posting, he distinguished himself by getting drunk at a reception in the U.S. ambassador's garden and passing out in the gutter, where the carabinieri picked him up and took...