Word: jaguars
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Director R. James Woolsey denounced CIA mole Aldrich Ames as a "malignant betrayer of his country" whose selling of secrets because he wanted a "bigger house and a Jaguar"cost U.S. agents their lives. Woolsey acknowledged, however, that the agency's "fraternity" culture of secrecy, protectiveness and loyalty helped shield Ames from being unmasked earlier...
...protagonists in Martin's book, two are doomed; only Ellen discovers a small measure of hope when she nurses a stricken jaguar back to health. In all three of its tales, though, The Great Divorce evocatively humanizes the wild nature that is just beneath the surface...
...failures than Russian perfidy. When and where was Ames recruited? Did he recruit his wife -- or was it the other way around? Why did their activities go undetected for so long? Given his GS-14 salary of $69,843, why didn't their $540,000 house and $65,000 Jaguar raise alarms? When did CIA and FBI investigators begin to catch on? If it was as early as 1986 and no later than 1991, why did investigators wait so long to make the arrests? Most important, are there other moles burrowed within...
...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...
...Jaguar, Lotus, and Rolls Royce displayed attractive but expensive fantasy cars. Jaguar's XJ220 comes equipped with a 542 horsepower engine, which powers it to 212 miles per hour...