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Article: CIA: Ames Betrayed 55 Operations; Inspector General's Draft Report Blames Supervisors for Failure to Plug Leak
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- The Washington Post
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- September 24, 1994
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The CIA inspector general's investigation of confessed spy
Aldrich H. Ames has found that the veteran counterintelligence
officer exposed 55 clandestine U.S. and allied operations over nine
years, far more damage than previously admitted, according to
sources familiar with a draft of the inspector general's findings.
The 400-page classified document, prepared under the direction
of Inspector General Frederick P. Hitz, attempts to explain what
happened as a result of Ames's duplicity and how the longtime
officer was able to avoid detection while supplying highly sensitive
information to Moscow, including the identities of more than 34
secret U.S. and allied agents, these sources said.
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