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MAAS, PETER Killer Spy: The Inside Story of the Fbi's Pursuit and Capture of Aldrich Ames, America's Deadliest Spy: First Edition
Warner Books, 1995. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 1995 FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING HARDCOVER. 'First Printing: May 1995' stated on copyright page with full number line (10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1), $21.95 list price on front dust jacket flap. Minor shelf wear. Photos included in text. "Aldrich Hazen Ames (born May 26, 1941) is a former Central Intelligence Agency counterintelligence officer and analyst, who, in 1994, was convicted of spying for the Soviet Union. Ames was born in River Falls, Wisconsin to Rachel Aldrich and Carleton Cecil Ames.[1] Ames began working for the CIA in 1962 in a low-level job. For the next few years, he graduated from college and advanced through the ranks while working in the Records Integration Division of the Operations Directorate. In 1969, on his first assignment as a case officer, he was stationed in Ankara, Turkey, where his job was to target Soviet intelligence officers for recruitment. He first began spying for the Soviet Union in 1985, when he walked into the Soviet embassy in Washington to offer secrets for money. Ames was assigned to the CIA's Europe Division / Counterintelligence branch where he was responsible for directing the analysis of Soviet intelligence operations. He had access to the identities of U.S. sources in the KGB and Soviet military. The information Ames provided led to the compromise of at least 100 U.S. intelligence operations and to the execution of at least 10 U.S. sources. He ultimately gave the Soviet Union the names of every American agent working in their country. The Soviets paid Ames approximately $4.6 million, allowing Ames and his Colombian-born wife, Rosario, to maintain a lifestyle beyond the means of a normal CIA officer. Ames, who struggled with alcoholism, had no ideological affinity for the USSR. Before he was caught, he was assigned the task of preparing the damage assessment of Jonathan Pollard's activities, and it is believed that he used the opportunity to attribute to Pollard the act of uncovering CIA agents and assets in the USSR. Ames and his wife liquidated about $2.5 million of the money the Soviets paid him for their use, with the Soviets withholding the remaining $2.1 million in a Russian bank account to be utilized once Ames retired from his spying." -- Wikipedia.
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