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...Woolsey responded. But Ames had explained the money as an inheritance from his wife's Colombian family...
...they demanded, could Aldrich Ames have spied for Moscow since 1985 without detection by his CIA colleagues? Seated at a table below the opening of the curve, Director of Central Intelligence R. James Woolsey parried the questions with candor, defensiveness and anger. Yes, there had been warning signs that Ames might be a problem: a drinking habit, a foreign-born wife, a lavish life-style that far exceeded his $69,843 annual salary. Yes, suspicions should have deepened when Ames showed some signs of deception on polygraph tests...
Last week Woolsey seemed to get the message. He emerged briefly from a two- hour grilling by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence to announce that the Ames debacle was being treated not "as a single episode or incident but as a serious problem." Some Congressmen suspected, however, that Woolsey, like past CIA directors, might merely be angling to head off legislative interference in the agency's internal matters. Warned one Congressman: "We are headed for a confrontation...
That sounded like hyperbole, but none of the committee members were surprised. Even the head of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Dennis DeConcini, who says he likes Woolsey better than any of his predecessors, finds him "so damn hardheaded" about the budget. The Arizona Democrat does not believe that Woolsey, a savvy Washington lawyer and defense expert, has overlooked the reduction in the Soviet threat. Rather, he suspects that Woolsey's scrappy toughness on the intelligence budget is a move to rally the agency's spies, who tend to resent outsiders, behind his leadership and the changes he has to make...
...some new construction or activity. The CIA's first response is to target the spot for satellite pictures. The National Security Agency can then usually pick up telephone and radio communications. Where it is possible, agents will be sent to the region to snoop. "There is no single approach," Woolsey says. "Spies tip off satellites, and satellites tip off spies...