Word: coded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...station chiefs, and her appointment more than a decade ago was an unusual recognition of her talents. Never mind that Gabon had not even had a station chief until three years before or that Vertefeuille ran a one-woman station, in charge only of herself, an assistant and a code clerk. The point...
...clear--or should have been--that something had gone terribly wrong. The likelihood that all these agents had been arrested because they or the CIA made operational mistakes simply defied the law of averages and common sense. Some other explanation--a compromised code or a KGB penetration of CIA communications--was possible, but remote. Everything pointed toward a human penetration. A mole...
...code name stood for both the investigation and Ames himself. Lewis chose Les Wiser, a 38-year-old FBI agent, to head the team that kept Ames and his wife under surveillance for nine months. The FBI tapped the couple's phone, bugged their house, combed through their trash, downloaded Ames' computer, followed him to Bogota and gathered the evidence it needed to prove...
...seven months before he was caught, Varenik, code-named GTFITNESS, provided American intelligence with detailed information about 170 agents and operations of the KGB and the GRU (the Soviet military intelligence arm). He tipped off the cia that the Soviets had a plan to create anti-German sentiment in the U.S. by planting explosives in bars and restaurants frequented in Germany by American service members (Varenik's role in the KGB scheme was to find places where the explosives could be hidden). "Gennadi," says one insider, "saved American lives...
...late 1985 and early 1986, as a result of information Ames provided to the KGB, the CIA lost almost all its agents in the Soviet Union. In time the agency would learn that 10 of them had been executed; a complete list of their names and code names appears below for the first time. Many others were sent to prison. In all, three dozen agents were lost. The following excerpts from Nightmover describe six of them...