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Rick Ames is charged with being nothing less than the worst mole in the history of the Central Intelligence Agency. He is accused of selling to the Soviets (and later the Russians) top secret information, and along the way, of selling out about ten American spies who were summarily executed by Moscow...
...convinced was Angleton that there was a mole in the inner sanctum of the Agency that he effectively halted all espionage efforts in Russia, fearing that whatever information could be gleaned would find its way back to Moscow via the mole...
...younger Ames' interest in spycatching may have been stoked by his father, a pipe-smoking member of the CIA counterintelligence staff created and run by the monomaniacal mole hunter James Jesus Angleton. But Carleton had an undistinguished career tracking communist parties and front groups. After he retired from the agency in the 1960s, few remembered much about him beyond his penchant for taking long naps at his desk. Still, the father, now dead, left one important legacy to the CIA: his son, who in 1962 signed on as a trainee...
...about the same time, CIA and FBI officials received three grave indicators that they had a mole in their midst. Before they could arrest Howard, he fled to Moscow, seemingly tipped off that the net was closing fast. Perhaps more damaging for intelligence operations, the 1980 Operation Courtship double agents, Motorin and Martynov, were ordered back to Moscow and executed. Again, a mole's touch was indicated...
Besides following them, bugging them, wiretapping them and digging through their trash, the FBI got the goods on the alleged CIA mole and his wife by conducting "electronic surveillance of ((Rick)) Ames' personal computer," according to the affidavit. The FBI won't say exactly how it did this, but electronic experts have some intriguing ideas that illustrate the advanced state of computer snooping...