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...fire alarm was triggered at 2:40 a.m., after flames engulfed a plastic trash can which was being used by residents to prop open a door in the hallway which leads to Eliot rooms...
...tranquil early morning silence is broken when one minute later my slumber is interrupted by a screaming man banging on a trash can as if Armageddon were close approaching...
...cryptic message lifted from the couple's trash last Sept. 15, for instance, signaled Ames' interest in scheduling a meeting in Bogota. It read, in part, "If you cannot meet ((piece missing)) 1 Oct, signal North after 27 Sept with message at Pipe." Through electronic and personal surveillance, investigators soon decoded the message: North was a mailbox where Ames and his handlers conveyed impersonal, prearranged messages; Pipe was the dead drop where detailed messages, instructions and money were exchanged...
Last Oct. 6, investigators retrieved a message from the couple's trash that may prove most damaging of all. Written by Ames a year earlier, the message reads: "You have probably heard a bit about me by this time from your (and now my) colleagues in the MBRF." It suggests that Ames easily made the transition from his KGB patrons to their successors in the Russian intelligence service. Ames also wrote, "My wife has accomodated ((sic)) herself to understanding what I am doing in a very supportive...
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...