Word: moles
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...mole hunters drew closer to their target, Jeanne Vertefeuille turned 60, and under CIA rules she had to take mandatory retirement. She had searched for the traitor for almost six years and could have gone off to the Sunbelt to enjoy life, like so many of her colleagues. But Vertefeuille was not about to give up the chase, especially now. She returned to the CIA on contract with no interruption of her employment...
...made the breakthrough. She correlated the dates of Ames' meetings with Chuvakhin in 1985 and 1986--which were known to the CIA and the FBI--with the dates of his bank deposits. She found that many of the deposits came right after the luncheons. Now, in October 1992, the mole hunters were reasonably sure that they had their quarry, and that it was Rick Ames...
...January 1993, Vertefeuille's team, persuaded that Ames was the mole, began briefing the FBI so the bureau could take over the case (the CIA has no powers of arrest). It was not until after mid-March, however, that the FBI was convinced that the target of the investigation should be Ames. By early May, the FBI was ready to move. "We opened the case on Ames on May 12, 1993," said John Lewis, the FBI's No. 2 counterintelligence official, who supervised the investigation. "We called it Nightmover...
...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 she was on the task force that had tracked him down. Mole hunter and quarry were finally face-to-face...
...Ames explained how worried he was in late 1985 and early 1986 when the Soviets so swiftly arrested the agents he had betrayed. He had talked to the KGB in Rome about it and said that the sudden loss of agents might lead the CIA to look for a mole and jeopardize his safety. The Soviets had asked, What can we do to help you? Is there anyone you can blame? They suggested that if Ames provided the name of another CIA officer, then the KGB would plant clues that the innocent person was the mole. The officer would...