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That wise counsel was ignored, as was a profusion of red flags that marked the sorry career of Aldrich Hazen Ames, 53, who was finally convicted last April after spying nine years for the Soviet Union. Intelligence documents obtained last week by TIME, including parts of the CIA inspector general's report on the Ames case, illustrate how badly the agency bungled its handling of the agent. Strong evidence of his poor performance, and later his treason, were ignored for years by an old-boy network that included friends of Ames' father Carleton, himself a hard-drinking CIA veteran...
Both CIA agent Aldrich Hazen Ames and Russian informant Dmitri Polyakov ((ESPIONAGE, Aug. 8)) were double agents. But General Polyakov's altruistic nature was evidenced by the fact that "he would not accept much money" for passing Moscow's secrets to the U.S. This behavior, coupled with his commitment to remain in Russia to right the wrongs within the Soviet system, shows that he was the antithesis of Ames, a piece of profit-oriented garbage. Why is someone like Ames extended the courtesy of a life prison sentence? It would seem his very existence poses a security threat...
...state-controlled Soviet newspaper, Pravda, reported that on March 15, 1988, General Dmitri Fedorovich Polyakov was executed for espionage. CIA and FBI agents who knew the Russian agonized over what mistake they might have made that resulted in his unmasking. Only recently did they learn the truth. Aldrich Hazen Ames, a career CIA officer, was arrested in February and sentenced to life in prison after he admitted taking $2.5 million from the KGB, starting in 1985, in return for secrets that included the identities of many Soviet and East bloc citizens spying for the CIA. At least 10 of these...
...employee Aldrich Hazen Ames and his wife Maria del Rosario Casas Ames were arrested last week and charged with spying for Russia. The fact that they were accused of accepting $1.5 million and spending it on such flashy items as a Jaguar and a $540,000 home (paid in cash) raised a few eyebrows. But a taste for luxury has been an essential component of the nouveau riche traitor life- style for at least a decade...
...level officer in the CIA's Soviet counterintelligence section was arrested and charged with spying for Moscow beginning in the mid-1980s. Prosecutors suspect that Aldrich Hazen Ames and his Colombian-born wife passed on information that, among other things, betrayed at least 10 Soviet nationals, some of whom were apparently executed in Moscow as spies for the U.S. Ames' attorney says he will fight the charges and warned of a prolonged and very public trial that might betray agency secrets. In Congress the case drew angry calls for the suspension of U.S. aid to Russia. The Clinton Administration...