Word: moles
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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About a month after its Senate counterpart delivered ascathing assessment of the CIA's handlingof the Aldrich Ames spy scandal, the House Intelligence Committee weighed in today with a verdict that the agency took a "negligent attitude" in trying to find the mole and stop him from damaging worldwide U.S. intelligence operations. Rep. Dan Glickman (D-Kan.), the committee chairman, called the Ames affair "a case of sloppiness in big capital letters" -- in part because the CIA didn't tell Congress it suspected a double-agent was loose in its ranks. The FBI also came under fire for being "inexplicably...
...scathing report, the Senate Intelligence Committee accused the CIA of gross ineptitude for failing to unearth agency mole Aldrich Ames during a period of nine years. Ames' sale of secrets to the Soviets -- the most damaging security breach in U.S. spy history -- is believed to have cost the lives of at least 10 agents behind the Iron Curtain and compromised more than 100 operations. The committee blasted the agency for its inability to investigate itself and properly recognize Ames' suspicious activities. The panel also criticized Director R. James Woolsey for his mild reprimands of those responsible for the botched probe...
...John MacGaffin, the No. 2 man in the agency's clandestine branch, and Frank Anderson, the head of Near East operations -- ran afoul of Woolsey for giving an award to one of the CIA officials whom Woolsey had criticized just last month for the agency's failure to detect mole Aldrich Ames. Congressional overseers expressed concern that the incident might suggest that Woolsey faces problems of insubordination...
Shocking new details about how the CIA ignored its mole...
...clout in Washington will not be increased by the controversy. The CIA already is under fire as a bloated bureaucracy still gripped by a cold war mind-set. It has been accused of discrimination against its female agents, and of incompetent handling of the case of Aldrich Ames, * the mole who betrayed many agents to the Soviets...