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The timing could hardly have been worse for Director of Central Intelligence R. James Woolsey. With the embarrassing Aldrich Ames spy case spread across the nation's front pages last week, Woolsey had to go up to Capitol Hill for one of his public sessions before the House Select Committee...
Even before the FBI closed in on Ames and his wife, Woolsey faced a full plate of policy and management problems. Now that the cold war is over and the threat of thermonuclear war is dramatically reduced, the three major intelligence organizations -- his own CIA, the code-breaking National Security...
On a hot August afternoon in 1985, Aldrich Hazen Ames exchanged vows with Maria del Rosario Casas Dupuy in a charming little church nestled by a hill in Arlington, Virginia. It was the bridegroom's second marriage, the bride's first. The small knot of family members and friends, sweltering...
But Ames' finances had taken a sharp turn for the better in a way that he could not admit to his colleagues at the CIA. Actually, he and Rosario had enough money to spring for champagne, canapes and caviar. Three months before, on May 18, Rosario had made a $9...
On that sticky day in August 1985, Ames had a lot on his mind. Only 10 days earlier, Vitali Yurchenko, a senior Soviet intelligence official, had defected -- or pretended to defect -- to the U.S. Ames had been assigned to meet Yurchenko's plane at Andrews Air Force Base, but after...