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...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...
During the course of the next 12 months, Ames lunched with Chuvakhin at least 14 times. He had a perfect cover because his CIA superiors had authorized him to meet with Soviet officials to try to recruit them. At his lunches with Chuvakhin, he continued providing all sorts of classified documents to the KGB, including the identity of more Soviet sources. The results were immediate and devastating. In the fall of 1985 and continuing into early 1986, some 20 CIA agents in the Soviet Union simply disappeared, vanishing off the agency's screen...
...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 the luncheons. Now, in October 1992, the mole hunters were reasonably sure that they had their quarry, and that it was Rick Ames...
Adolf Tolkachev: On June 13, 1985, the same day Ames turned over his cache of secret CIA documents to Sergei Chuvakhin in Washington, the KGB arrested one of the CIA's key assets in Moscow. A defense researcher who was a leading expert on stealth aircraft technology, Tolkachev was identified in the documents Ames turned over. The CIA later concluded that Tolkachev had first been betrayed by renegade CIA officer Edward Lee Howard, but that Ames' identification helped to seal his fate. Tolkachev was executed on Sept...
...Said he: "I am more than ever convinced that the continuing cohesion of all the Atlantic powers, not merely the European powers, is vitally important to the preserving and reinforcing of the peace of the world . . . NATO's work ... is just getting under way." While Soviet Ambassador Dmitry Chuvakhin listened attentively from the diplomatic gallery, "Mike" Pearson continued: "The menace of Soviet imperialism remains ... If there has been improvement ... it is largely due to the increased strength and unity of the free world...