Word: turncoat
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...work enjoyed a second life as a praised film in 1957. Gazzo's screenplays included the Elvis Presley vehicle King Creole. Gazzo also made his mark in front of the cameras, portraying a succession of screen heavies and winning an Oscar nomination in 1974 for his appearance as the turncoat mobster Frank Pentangeli in The Godfather, Part...
...confirmed that the most important of Ames' victims by far was Polyakov, whose briefing transcripts and photocopies of secret documents fill 25 file drawers in the agency's innermost sanctum. Many intelligence experts now believe that Polyakov made a far more important contribution than a more famous GRU turncoat, Colonel Oleg Penkovsky, who was executed in 1963 for supplying the U.S. with information during the Cuban missile crisis. Of all the secret agents the U.S. recruited during the cold war, says CIA director James Woolsey, "Polyakov was the jewel in the crown...
...members of Congress feel that Woolsey is reluctant to embrace a changed world. DeConcini is angry at Woolsey for refusing, with White House backing, to accept the Senator's legislation giving the FBI earlier access to possible security leaks. The measure comes in response to the case of CIA turncoat Aldrich Ames, in which the agency for two years neglected to inform the FBI of its suspicions after Ames gave deceptive answers in a 1991 polygraph exam. Ames, a 31-year CIA veteran, was sentenced last April to life in prison for pocketing up to $2 million from Moscow...
...Powell claims that nine of his ancestors fought for the Confederacy, and mall construction would have put pizza parlors on the crucial Stuart's Hill. "He must have needed the money," complains Snyder, one of Powell's erstwhile comrades who marched with him then but sees him as a turncoat...
...unknown what drew the bookwormish Rosario and the unintellectual Ames together. The larger question is who turned whose patriotic loyalties. Was Rosario the original turncoat, playing along with Ames in order to recruit him for her Moscow handlers? Or was Ames a double agent by then, persuading Rosario to spy first on Colombia for the U.S., then on the U.S. for the Soviet Union? Two FBI officials involved in the case insist that Ames was turned first and that Rosario went along, subsequently displaying aggressive greed...