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...task force did not have an easy time. It was not only the lack of support from above, the atmosphere of languid unconcern that permeated the agency's executive suite. The KGB made its own contribution. From the start the KGB assumed that the CIA would look for a penetration after its agents began disappearing. Moscow therefore did everything it could to deflect the attention of the mole hunters and send them down blind alleys...
...KGB forced some of the agents already arrested and imprisoned to take part in various schemes to mislead the CIA. For example, one source arrested by the KGB was made to contact a person in the U.S. in an effort to convince the FBI that his life was normal and he was having no problems. In addition, Soviet officials, prodded by the KGB, would deftly leak information to CIA officers suggesting that agents had been lost because they had made mistakes...
This game tied up Vertefeuille and her tiny staff for several years. In 1986 and 1987 the team held a series of meetings with an FBI task force called anlace, which had been set up to try to discover why two KGB officers working for the FBI in Washington had been executed after they returned to Moscow. Then in 1988, the CIA established a new counterintelligence center and folded Vertefeuille and her tiny band of mole hunters into it. She was put in charge of a branch that had responsibility for investigating all cases involving possible penetration...
...officer at the American embassy. During his posting, he distinguished himself by getting drunk at a reception in the U.S. ambassador's garden and passing out in the gutter, where the carabinieri picked him up and took him to the hospital. In Rome Ames met repeatedly with his KGB handlers. He also bought his first Jaguar...
...perhaps never coming back. Slouched in the back of the car that took him to the bureau's office at Tysons Corner, Virginia, Ames repeated to himself again and again, "Think . Think . Think." He knew that all sorts of incriminating documents, including computer disks and letters to the KGB, were in his house and in his computer. It was over...