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...largest amount of sensitive data ever passed to the KGB in a single meeting. Inside the bags was the most secret information Langley possessed-the names of some of the most important Soviet sources working...
...next 12 months, Ames lunched with Chuvakhin at least 14 times. He had a perfect cover because his CIA superiors had authorized him to meet with Soviet officials to try to recruit them. At his lunches with Chuvakhin, he continued providing all sorts of classified documents to the KGB, including the identity of more Soviet sources. The results were immediate and devastating. In the fall of 1985 and continuing into early 1986, some 20 CIA agents in the Soviet Union simply disappeared, vanishing off the agency's screen...
...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...
...hideous prospect--that someone inside the CIA was betraying the agency's operations to the KGB. Faced with a disaster of such apocalyptic proportions, the agency might have been expected to turn Langley upside down. To pull out all the stops. To launch a major investigation...
...access to the files. They were asked to find any common strands among the cases that might provide clues to what had happened. And they were asked to determine how many cases might have been betrayed by Edward Lee Howard, the former CIA officer who sold secrets to the KGB, escaped into the New Mexico desert in 1985 and surfaced in Moscow a year later. Of the cases Howard had not known about, Vertefeuille and her team were asked to determine how many might be explained by other factors, such as sloppiness on the part of either the agent...