Word: ameses
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As the story of Aldrich H. Ames' $2.7 million, 7 year spying spree comes to light in dribs and drabs, James "Jesus" Angleton must be doing cartwheels in his grave. Angleton, only posthumously biographized, but long lengendary in the spook community, was the CIA's both hopelessly paranoid and devastatingly...
Angleton would rightly be appalled at how Ames aimlessly drifted past CIA monitoring. Though he took frequent trips abroad, including to that eternal city of spies, Vienna, and though he bought a $540,000 house on a $70,000 salary, Angleton's successors barely took notice.
Why should the Senators be angry with Russia? After all, Ames' most opprobrious crime seems to have been betraying the identities of his Russian counterparts. The Senators cry that we and the Russians are now allies, so that their spying is all the more perfidious.
--From and article on Aldrick H. Ames, accused double agent, by Neil A. Louis in The New York Times, Feb. 27,1994. We are relieved to know that Mr. Ames really does love this country and all the capitalist opportunities it presents to enterprising individuals like himself.
The five were columnists Joan Beck of the Chicago Tribune and Donna Britt of The Washington Post in the commentary-column writing category; Michael Gartner, editor and chairman of The Daily Tribune in Ames, Iowa, for editorial writing; staff writer Anne Hull of the St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times for non...