SPY CASES - UNITED STATES

The Ames Spy Case

1999-2000: Update

 

CNN. "CIA Spy Hunter Talks to CNN about Notorious Turncoats." 29 May 2000. [http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/05/29/cia.spy.02/index.html]

In an interview with CNN National Security Correspondent David Ensor, Richard Haver, former executive director of the CIA's Community Management Staff, "talks about his experiences with ... John Anthony Walker; Aldrich Ames,... and Jonathan Pollard." (Includes video clips of interview.)

Pincus, Walter. "Ames Seeks to Renegotiate 1994 Guilty Plea Over Spying for KGB." Washington Post, 15 Sep. 1999, A7. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]

"Aldrich H. Ames is seeking to renegotiate his 1994 guilty plea, saying in a court filing [in U.S. District Court in Alexandria] that he agreed to a life sentence only to avert a long prison term for his wife, which would have deprived his young son of both parents....

"The latest confirmation of Ames's activities for Moscow is contained in a new book on Soviet intelligence,... based on revelations by former KGB archivist Vasili Mitrokhin. It says that Viktor Cherkashin, the KGB agent who handled Ames in 1985, said Ames's first delivery of information included 'the identities of two real American agents' inside the KGB station in Washington. The book also says that Ames identified more than 20 agents."

 

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