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...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 should be Ames. By early May, the FBI was ready to move. "We opened the case on Ames on May 12, 1993," said John Lewis, the FBI's No. 2 counterintelligence official, who supervised the investigation. "We called it Nightmover...
Nightmover ended on the morning of Feb. 21, 1994, when Ames left his house in Arlington, stepped into his Jaguar and drove into an FBI roadblock a short distance away. The arrest of Ames and his wife came one day before he was scheduled to leave for Moscow on CIA business. The FBI was not about to risk Ames' going to Russia and perhaps never coming back. Slouched in the back of the car that took him to the bureau's office at Tysons Corner, Virginia, Ames repeated to himself again and again, "Think . Think . Think." He knew that...
...Charles Biebel, an 89-year-old retired farmer, was found slumped in his wheelchair in a mobile home in Belleville, Illinois, his chest shredded by two bullet wounds. The following August, Davis, a 20-year-old alcoholic with a childhood history of brain damage and suicide attempts, and an arrest record dating back to age 8, was picked up for the armed robbery of an auto-parts store in East St. Louis. Ten days later, Davis confessed to 11 crimes, among them the Biebel murder...
...nerve gas ingredients in the sect's Mt. Fuji compound. Asahara is getting no help from his followers. Under questioning, theguru's top lieutenants have said that Asahara masterminded the attack, having laid plans two years ago for the cult to start manufacturing chemical weapons. Officials have now arrested all but seven of the 41 cult members sought in arrest warrants...
Four hours into a 1,000-officermanhunt, Japanese police last night arrested Shoko Asahara, the Japanese cult leader charged Monday with murder in theMar. 20 nerve gas attackon Tokyo subways. They also took 14 of his followers into custody. The bearded, 40-year-old guru was meditating alone in a hidden, steel-fortified room at theAum Shinri Kyo cult'srural compound beneath Mount Fuji when police broke in. He surrendered peacefully, with one proviso: "Don't touch me," investigators said he told police doctors. "I don't even let my followers touch me." The Japanese Cabinet held an emergency meeting...