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...example, are useful in the war on drugs to pinpoint airstrips, processing plants and storage areas operated by narcotics cartels in Colombia. Once the drug operations are located, intelligence teams intercept radio messages from the installations and send agents in to scout the area on the ground. When the Colombian military acted on one such U.S. tip, it moved in and seized 26 people, six planes and 20 tons of cocaine...
...despite a frantic effort to cultivate one particular KGB officer, recruited any Soviets during this period in Mexico -- or allowed himself to be seduced by the other side. But he did make one contact that would change his life: Maria del Rosario Casas Dupuy, a cultural attache at the Colombian embassy. "She was efficient and stood out because of her intelligence," says Noemi Sanin, Colombia's Foreign Minister. "We are investigating her activities now, but initially they seem all normal." According to the affidavit released last week by U.S. prosecutors, the CIA began to court her in June...
...same time, Ames may have been concerned that his marriage was frowned upon by his CIA superiors. The couple first met in 1982 while holding down posts in Mexico City, he as a CIA case officer, she as a cultural attache at the Colombian embassy. The next year, he put her on the CIA payroll as an informant. By the time they left Mexico later that year, Rosario was his girlfriend. CIA case officers are not supposed to have affairs with their agents or marry foreign nationals. Somehow Ames got away with doing both...
Rosario is a member of a prominent Colombian family. Her father was a respected Senator, and she was a respected figure in her own right. After obtaining a master's degree in ancient Greek, she taught Greek, literary theory and contemporary culture at the University of the Andes from 1976 to 1982. Students remember her as a brilliant scholar and a dedicated teacher. - During those years, Rosario hobnobbed with some of the region's greatest writers, among them Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Gretel Wernher, dean of the social-sciences department, characterizes Rosario's student years as "disciplined and responsible...
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...