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...December 1983, Rosario went off the CIA payroll. At roughly the same time, Ames was transferred back to Langley headquarters. The shock of discovering that Ames' paycheck did not stretch as far in Washington as it had in Mexico City was probably compounded by Rosario's loss of income as both a cultural attache and a spy. At the same time, Ames' marriage was heading for divorce...
...months after marrying Rosario, for instance, Ames scheduled a meeting with a Soviet contact. This is the first such unauthorized contact described in the 39-page federal affidavit. By that account, "on or about February 14, 1986, Ames scheduled a meeting with a Soviet contact, which, according to CIA records, he did not thereafter report." This notation implies that Ames' phone transaction was tape-recorded by the FBI but was not cross-checked at the time with CIA records, a move that might have exposed Ames' alleged activities early on. The affidavit further notes that according to bank- deposit slips...
Wiretaps of the couple's conversations indicate that Rosario was not only supportive; she at least tried to impose a modicum of discipline on the operation. Snippets of dialogue reported in the affidavit show that she grilled her husband for every detail about his alleged interactions with the Russians. While Ames comes off as relaxed and somewhat careless, she frets constantly. Did he send the message on time? Should she get Paul out of the house? Did he find a deft way to transport large sums of cash? Often she seems nervous and distrustful of Ames. At one point...
Last week, when the couple were arrested, neighbors and former colleagues expressed shock. Ames and Rosario, they said, didn't seem like spies. In Colombia news of Rosario's arrest was greeted with outrage against the U.S. The Colombian chancellory ordered its ambassador in Washington to solicit official explanations as to why and how the CIA allegedly compromised Rosario during her tour at the Colombian embassy in Mexico City. If the charges prove false, Foreign Minister Sanin vowed, "Colombia will demand that the U.S. government make amends to re-establish ((Rosario's)) good name...
...months ahead, efforts will be made by the Administration, the Congress, the courts and the intelligence community to determine the full extent of Rick and Rosario Ames' activities. But without their cooperation, it may never be learned what FBI and CIA operations, both past and present, they compromised -- and whose lives they destroyed. If proved guilty, they will have ruined their own. But there is a third life that wrenches the heart: that of their six-year-old son Paul. The boy, who is being cared for by relatives, may never again see either of his parents outside a courtroom...