Word: moles
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...task force called anlace, which had been set up to try to discover why two KGB officers working for the FBI in Washington had been executed after they returned to Moscow. Then in 1988, the CIA established a new counterintelligence center and folded Vertefeuille and her tiny band of mole hunters into it. She was put in charge of a branch that had responsibility for investigating all cases involving possible penetration of the CIA. The members of Vertefeuille's team were assigned to other cases that were deemed more important than the ones the task force had been...
Ames seemed almost within the mole hunters' grasp, but he slipped away. In January 1990, Dan Payne was assigned to begin a two-month training course. No one was brought in to replace him. When he returned in March, he was pulled off the Ames investigation and sent overseas to pursue another lead in the mole hunt that proved to be a wild goose chase...
...hunters hunt--a mole must enjoy life to the hilt while he can. In January 1992 Ames bought his third Jaguar. He traded in his 2 1/2-year-old white one for a red XJ6. As he had done all along, Ames blithely drove his Jaguar into the CIA parking lot every workday...
That spring the joint mole-hunt unit decided to take another look at Ames' wealth. Paul Redmond assigned the task to Dan Payne, who had begun the financial inquiry three years earlier but been pulled off it. Ames was also the only suspect singled out for this type of investigation...
...Rosario Ames were spending at least $30,000 a month with credit cards. By August the team knew that hundreds of thousands of dollars had been deposited in Ames' accounts in the Dominion Bank of Virginia, much of the money from wire transfers of undetermined origin. As the mole hunters dug into Ames' bank accounts in the fall of 1992, they discovered that by that time, wire transfers of about $1 million and cash deposits of more than $500,000 had been made...