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Let the hunters hunt--a mole must enjoy life to the hilt while he can. In January 1992 Ames bought his third Jaguar. He traded in his 2 1/2-year-old white one for a red XJ6. As he had done all along, Ames blithely drove his Jaguar into the CIA parking...
That spring the joint mole-hunt unit decided to take another look at Ames' wealth. Paul Redmond assigned the task to Dan Payne, who had begun the financial inquiry three years earlier but been pulled off it. Ames was also the only suspect singled out for this type of investigation...
This time the agency invoked legal provisions allowing it to query banks and credit companies. In June responses began to flow in, and the task force learned for the first time that Aldrich and Rosario Ames were spending at least $30,000 a month with credit cards. By August the...
It was Sandy Grimes who in October 1992 made the breakthrough. She correlated the dates of Ames' meetings with Chuvakhin in 1985 and 1986--which were known to the CIA and the FBI--with the dates of his bank deposits. She found that many of the deposits came right after...
In January 1993, Vertefeuille's team, persuaded that Ames was the mole, began briefing the FBI so the bureau could take over the case (the CIA has no powers of arrest). It was not until after mid-March, however, that the FBI was convinced that the target of the investigation...