Word: moles
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Federal prosecutors unveiled some of the evidence collected against accused CIA mole Aldrich Ames and his wife. Among the items: nine pages of instructions from the Soviets, including an entry indicating that Ames unmasked an East European security officer; and an accounting statement from Moscow noting that by 1989 some $2.7 million -- more than previously thought -- had already been appropriated to Ames for his work...
...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...
...Mole Unmasked...
COVER STORIES: A Mole Surfaces...