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...Finland in the early 1960s and in the Hague in the mid-1960s. In the early 1970s she had found her metier, counterintelligence--combatting opposition spies and moles--when she was appointed head of the research section in the Soviet division's counterintelligence group, then chief of the branch that maintained biographies on Soviet and East European operatives. When a new KGB officer popped up in Bangkok, or the agency was targeting a GRU colonel in Prague as a possible recruit, the field would ask headquarters to run name traces on these individuals to see what the CIA's computers...
When Vertefeuille went to Gabon, Aldrich Ames was working in Langley as Soviet branch chief in the counterintelligence division. On June 13, 1985, in his fourth-floor office, he wrapped up between 5 and 7 lbs. of cable traffic and other secret documents in plastic bags, walked out to the parking lot and drove across the Potomac to Chadwick's, a Washington saloon under the K Street Freeway in Georgetown. There he met Sergei Chuvakhin, the first secretary of the Soviet embassy in Washington, and handed him the plastic bags...
...discover why two KGB officers working for the FBI in Washington had been executed after they returned to Moscow. Then in 1988, the CIA established a new counterintelligence center and folded Vertefeuille and her tiny band of mole hunters into it. She was put in charge of a branch that had responsibility for investigating all cases involving possible penetration of the CIA. The members of Vertefeuille's team were assigned to other cases that were deemed more important than the ones the task force had been set up to probe...
Earlier this year some of the children attempted suicide by drinking bleach. Marleine Bastien, a Miami social worker, counseled a desperate 16-year-old boy who tried to hang himself from a tree branch in February. He survived only because the branch snapped under his weight. "Many of these children have expressed suicidal ideas," says Bastien. "Are we going to have to wait for a fatality before something is done...
...work nearly well enough to execute it, not on the scale and with the level of secrecy and precision the militias envision. After all, government is run by the same people who once paid $640 for toilet-seat covers, who went ahead with the initial raid on the Branch Davidians even though they knew David Koresh had been forewarned, who couldn't figure out that Aldrich Ames was selling secrets to the Soviet Union even when the $70,000-a-year cia officer moved into a half-million-dollar mansion and began driving to work in a spiffy new Jaguar...