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...recent arrest of Aldrich H. Ames has, for the first time in a while, returned to the front pages of our morning dailies the issue of spying, and specifically, spying in the context of the forgotten but not gone Cold...
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, the American accused of spying for Moscow. To do that, the CIA officials insisted, the Russians must honor a previous promise to cut the number of their spies operating in the U.S. by half and identify their top intelligence officers in New York City and San Francisco. Most important, Moscow...
Glickman's statement seemed mild compared with the reaction in Moscow, where Russian intelligence officials could only roll their eyes at America's holier- than-thou hypocrisy. Some interpreted the timing of Ames' arrest as a jealous rejoinder to Moscow's recent diplomatic triumph in Bosnia. To others the American anger about the Russians' paying Ames to reveal the names of double agents seemed baffling because, in exposing the fact that the U.S. is continuing to spy on Russia, Ames' arrest proves that America is no innocent bystander when it comes to espionage. Yeltsin's chief spokesman, Vyacheslav Kostikov, warned...
...about the same time, CIA and FBI officials received three grave indicators that they had a mole in their midst. Before they could arrest Howard, he fled to Moscow, seemingly tipped off that the net was closing fast. Perhaps more damaging for intelligence operations, the 1980 Operation Courtship double agents, Motorin and Martynov, were ordered back to Moscow and executed. Again, a mole's touch was indicated...
Last week, when the couple were arrested, neighbors and former colleagues expressed shock. Ames and Rosario, they said, didn't seem like spies. In Colombia news of Rosario's arrest was greeted with outrage against the U.S. The Colombian chancellory ordered its ambassador in Washington to solicit official explanations as to why and how the CIA allegedly compromised Rosario during her tour at the Colombian embassy in Mexico City. If the charges prove false, Foreign Minister Sanin vowed, "Colombia will demand that the U.S. government make amends to re-establish ((Rosario's)) good name...