Word: ameses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ames might never have given serious thought to anything but his own pocketbook or his own neuroses.
Whether psychology or economics, one thing is clear. Ames represents a new kind of spy, not the type that James Bond movies of John Le Carre novels are made of. Neither is he a Kim Philby or a Jonathan Jay Pollard--no complex web of ideological motivations bore on his...
As Aldrich Ames spied against his own, he ought to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. And as a society that is rightfully pessimistic about its own collective health, we ought to be shocked and dismayed by yet another sign of our state of "fallenness"--the rise...
Late last Tuesday evening, a plane departed from Washington with an unusual passenger list: two high-level officials from the CIA bound for Moscow. The delegation's mission was straightforward if somewhat naive: give Russian authorities a chance to limit the diplomatic fallout caused by the arrest of Aldrich Ames...
If such a diplomatic dance seems familiar, that is because last week's theatrics evoked the old mutual acrimony, suspicion and rivalry that divided Russia and America for nearly 45 years. The dispute illustrates how fragile relations still remain between the cold-war rivals -- and how simple it would be...