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...code name stood for both the investigation and Ames himself. Lewis chose Les Wiser, a 38-year-old FBI agent, to head the team that kept Ames and his wife under surveillance for nine months. The FBI tapped the couple's phone, bugged their house, combed through their trash, downloaded Ames' computer, followed him to Bogota and gathered the evidence it needed to prove...
...prison. The very next day, he was brought to the Tysons Corner FBI office for debriefing. Officials would begin the process of questioning him fully about his activities and his knowledge of the KGB. The debriefers were in place around a polished conference table. From the FBI there were Les Wiser, James Milburn and special agents Mike Donner and Rudy Guerin. Mark Hulkower, who has successfully prosecuted the Ameses for the government, represented the U.S. Attorney's office. The only person from the CIA was Jeanne Vertefeuille. Ames was brought in, handcuffed. He spotted Vertefeuille right away. He knew...
Hell, as it turns out, hath a lot more fury than a woman scorned-at least if the woman is Kathleen Turner. The bassoon-voiced actress, starring on Broadway in Indiscretions (a revival of Jean Cocteau's Les Parents Terribles), was the only member of the show's five-person cast not to get a Tony nomination. The snub was compounded in awkwardness because Turner had been chosen to read the nominations to the press and because her fellow reader, Jeremy Irons, then drawled cattily, "I always think it's better to be nominated than to win." Other than that...
...Les Aspin, the one-time Pentagon "whiz kid" who returned to oversee the downsizing of the military as President Clinton's first Defense secretary, died Sunday night after suffering a massive stroke.TIME Defense correspondent Mark Thompsonremembers Aspin as gifted and idiosyncratic -- a "perfect idea man" who flourished during a long and controversial tenure as chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. But as Defense secretary, Aspin's utter absorption in minutiae and his rumpled, professorial style did him in. "He was consumed by his work, and it ultimately proved his downfall," Thompson says. "He was not a manager, and that...
Earlier this year the Les-bian Avengers, a radical les-bian group which staged a fire-eating demonstration in downtown Boston, held planning meetings at Dudley...