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Article: `Tough' Internal CIA Report Cites Failures That Helped Shield Ames; Officers Who Overlooked Signs Criticized; Punishment Left to Woolsey
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- The Washington Post
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- September 18, 1994
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The CIA inspector general has identified more than a dozen
active or retired officials who either ignored warnings or
overlooked complaints against onetime counterintelligence officer
Aldrich H. Ames during the nine years he spied for Moscow, according
to sources familiar with the report.
Chiefs, deputies and operating personnel in the Office of
Security are said to come in for special critical attention in a
400-page report by the inspector general for their failure to follow
up on information about Ames's lavish spending in 1990. The security
office's polygraph operation, which passed Ames in 1986 and 1991
despite some indications that he had shown deception on key
financial ...