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Article: Suspect Very Well-Placed for Alleged Role; Counterintelligence Provided Window on U.S. Efforts Against Russian Spies
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- February 23, 1994
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In shopping for a spy at the CIA, Moscow could hardly have made
a better purchase than someone like Aldrich H. Ames.
A former head of the agency's Soviet counterintelligence branch,
Ames was an expert on CIA efforts to ferret out Russian spies. That
meant he was the ideal man to help Moscow's spymasters stay one jump
ahead of their CIA foes, while protecting himself from exposure.
Later, as an official of the agency's supersecret operations
directorate, Ames was privy to much of the raw intelligence sent
back by U.S. agents inside the communist state. This meant he was in
a position to help Moscow defeat U.S. spy operations and eliminate
any moles in its own intelligence organization.
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