Word: ameses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Six months after marrying Rosario, for instance, Ames scheduled a meeting with a Soviet contact. This is the first such unauthorized contact described in the 39-page federal affidavit. By that account, "on or about February 14, 1986, Ames scheduled a meeting with a Soviet contact, which, according to CIA...
Both the phone call and the traceable deposits were careless tradecraft on Ames' part, particularly given the intelligence climate in Washington. The year before, so many Americans had been discovered spying for Moscow -- Edward Lee Howard, Ronald Pelton, John Walker -- that the press had dubbed 1985 "the year of the...
If Ames was the hand behind the Howard, Motorin and Martynov debacles -- as is now suspected -- he was a cool number. In 1986 he passed the polygraph test routinely administered to intelligence officials every five years. By then there were subtle changes in Ames' behavior, but nothing that a lie...
A cryptic message lifted from the couple's trash last Sept. 15, for instance, signaled Ames' interest in scheduling a meeting in Bogota. It read, in part, "If you cannot meet ((piece missing)) 1 Oct, signal North after 27 Sept with message at Pipe." Through electronic and personal surveillance, investigators...
Last Oct. 6, investigators retrieved a message from the couple's trash that may prove most damaging of all. Written by Ames a year earlier, the message reads: "You have probably heard a bit about me by this time from your (and now my) colleagues in the MBRF." It suggests...