2.Ibid.
3.Turner, Secrecy and Democracy: The CIA in Transition, 141–142.
4.Ibid., 51–52.
5.Epstein, Legend: The Secret World of Lee Harvey Oswald, 20, 263, 273.
6.Tom Mangold in Cold Warrior, 340–344, details some of the most important of these GRU agents and Kalaris’ efforts to rectify the damage done to Western governments by Angleton’s deliberate inaction.
7.For the record, Poleshchuk is the correct U.S. Board of Geographic Names transliteration of his surname. Earley has it as Poleschuk in Confessions of a Spy: The Real Story of Aldrich Ames, and Bearden has it as Polyshchuk in The Main Enemy: The Inside Story of the CIA’s Final Showdown with the KGB.
8.Krasilnikov, Prizraki s Ulitsy Chaykovskogo, 127–130 of the English translation.
9.Cherkashin, Spy Handler: Memoir of a KGB Officer, 191–192. Ames, of course, freely admits that he betrayed Poleshchuk to the KGB.
10.One of Barnett’s handlers was former KGB general Oleg Kalugin, who tells the story in his book. See Kalugin, The First Directorate: My 32 Years in Intelligence and Espionage Against the West, 159–162.
11.The following account draws heavily on an article by Barry Royden, entitled “Tolkachev, a Worthy Successor to Penkovsky,” which appeared in the CIA publication Studies in Intelligence in 2003. Those who wish to delve more deeply should consult this narrative, which is based on still-classified file holdings.
12.For details on Fulton’s tour in Moscow, including a description of his role in the Tolkachev case, see Fulton, Reflections on a Life, 59–82.
13.For Sheymov’s own account of his relationship with the CIA, see Sheymov, Tower of Secrets: A Real Life Spy Thriller.
14.Ibid., 381. Sheymov was right on both counts. In this instance, as well as several others, he demonstrated that he and his family were partners in the ultimate success of the operation.
Chapter 8. Later Major Cases
1.The most authoritative source on this case is Carnets intimes de la DST: 30 ans au coeur du contre-espionnage francais (Intimate notebooks of the DST: Thirty years at the heart of French counter-espionage). This book is based on interviews with Raymond Nart, former DST deputy chief, who was responsible for running the Farewell operation. Descriptions of the case in English include Gordon Brook-Shepherd’s The Storm Birds: Soviet Post-War Defectors, 253–265, and Gus Weiss’ “The Farewell Dossier,” which appeared in Studies in Intelligence in 1996.
2.One book, however, treats this case in detail. This is Traitors Among Us: Inside the Spy Catcher’s World by Stuart A. Herrington, which devotes more than half of its pages to Conrad and his ring.
3.This is not the way Milt Bearden tells the story. See page 107 of The Main Enemy. Nevertheless, early in the investigation of what had gone wrong in 1985 Jeanne read Smetanin’s file with care. She believes that her memory of the event is correct.
4.Cherkashin, Spy Handler, 218–219.
5.Ibid., 219–224.
6.Ibid., 223.
7.Ibid., 210.
Chapter 9. Things Begin to Go Wrong
1.For Howard’s own highly unbelievable account of his relationship with the KGB, see Safe House: The Compelling Memoirs of the Only CIA Spy to Seek Asylum in Russia. David Wise has a more balanced version in The Spy Who Got Away: The Inside Story of Edward Lee Howard, the CIA Agent Who Betrayed His Country’s Secrets and Escaped to Moscow.
2.For an insider’s account of this operation, see Olson, Fair Play: The Moral Dilemmas of Spying, 9–11.
3.For a detailed description of the Walker spy ring, see Earley, Family of Spies: Inside the John Walker Spy Ring.
Chapter 10. First Attempts
1.This case is described in Oleg Kalugin’s book The First Directorate. See pages 46–47.
2.Two books have been written about this case. The broader and more objective one is Rodney Barker’s Dancing with the Devil; the other is The Court-Martial of Clayton Lonetree by Lake Headley, a member of Lonetree’s defense team.
Chapter 11. CIC Formation
1.Oddly, Milt Bearden, who is central to this fiasco and must be held responsible for it, describes it as having begun in May 1987. See Bearden, The Main Enemy, 297.
Chapter 12. Beginning of the Focus on Ames
1.As it turned out, this last theory was correct. The Czechs did indeed share Koecher’s reporting with the KGB. See Kalugin, The First Directorate, 186–188. Kalugin does not provide names, but it is clear that Koecher is the person he is talking about.
Chapter 13. The Investigation Gets New Life
1.The review appeared in 2004 in Studies in Intelligence, published by the CIA’s Center for the Study of Intelligence.
Chapter 15. The FBI Takes Over
1.Maas, Killer Spy: The Inside Story of the FBI’s Pursuit and Capture of Aldrich Ames, America’s Deadliest Spy, 129.
Chapter 16. Reactions to the Arrest of Ames
1.See I. C. Smith, Inside: A Top G-Man Exposes Spies, Lies, and Bureaucratic Bungling Inside the FBI, 131.
2.See HPSCI, Report of Investigation: The Aldrich Ames Espionage Case, and SSCI, An Assessment of the Aldrich H. Ames Espionage Case and Its Implications for U.S. Intelligence.
3.For an overview, see the unclassified abstract The Aldrich H. Ames Case: An Assessment of CIA’s Role in Identifying Ames as an Intelligence Penetration of the Agency.
4.In his recent book, Cherkashin says that he met Ames on three separate occasions. See Spy Handler, 24.
5.Pages 151–157 of Maas’ Killer Spy contain information from the FBI’s technical coverage of the Ames residence and telephones from which the special agents drew their conclusions, and pages 222–223 outline what was found in the post-arrest search of the residence. She had sixty purses, some of them still in wrapping paper, more than five hundred pairs of shoes, dozens of ensembles, some of them still with the price tags attached, and one hundred and sixty-five pairs of unopened panty hose.
Chapter 17. Ames the Person, Ames the Spy
1.Clarridge, A Spy For All Seasons: My Life in the CIA, 121.
2.See Shevchenko’s autobiography, Breaking with Moscow: The Highest Ranking Soviet Official Ever to Defect.
3.Cherkashin, Spy Handler.
4.Ibid., 179.
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INDEX
access agents, 165
AEKNIGHT, 163
Agee, Philip, 114–15, 121
Agency, The: The Rise and Decline of the CIA (Ranelagh), 60
Aldrich Ames: The Spy Within (film), 160
Ames, Aldrich, 41, 53, 55, 64, 72, 114, 117; 1984–85 performance evaluation, 140; alcohol use, 121–22, 165, 181–82; arrest of, 147–48; attitude toward women, 180–81; “big dump” of case documents to KGB, 169–70; Bokhan operation and, 72; childhood of, 161–62; comparison with Hanssen, 184–87; compromise of double agents by, 174–75; compromise of FBI assets by, 87–88; compromise of Smetanin by, 87; compromise of Vasilyev by, 84–85; document turnover procedures with KGB, 172–73, 175–76; early career of, 162–63; on Fedorenko’s bona fides, 123–24; financial arrangements with KGB, 173–74, 176–77; initial overtures to KGB, 167–69; lifestyle changes, 120–21; marriage to Rosario, 171; personal characteristics of, 178–82; Poleshchuk operation and, 68, 69, 70; Polyakov operation and, 26–27; polygraph examinations of, 122, 126, 136, 138, 170, 186; as promotion panel member, 174; psychological profile of, 131, 167; Soviet contact reporting by, 141–42, 173; Soviet handlers and contacts of, 132–33, 140–41, 156–57, 172–73, 176, 186; Tolkachev operation and, 77; trial of, 154–55; Vorontsov operation and, 93
Ames, Carleton, 161, 179
Ames, Nancy. See Segebarth, Nancy Jane
Ames, Rachel, 161, 179
Ames, Rosario, 120–21, 173–74, 182; arrest of, 147–48; family wealth and connections, 126, 134; FBI interview of, 158–59; financial extravagance of, 166–67; investigation of father’s will, 134; operational file of, 122; role in husband’s espionage career, 177–78; trial of, 154–55; wedding of, 171; work for the CIA, 165
Ames case: books concerning, 159–60; CIA inspector general’s investigation of, 151–52; Congressional reports on, 151; lessons learned in, 152, 188–89; official recognition for investigators in, 153–54; public statement concerning, 149–50. See also Ames mole hunt; CIC/Special Investigations Unit
Ames Damage Assessment Team, 85
Ames mole hunt: chronology of Ames’ activities, 138–39, 142; CIA background reinvestigation, 125; CIC/SIU interview, 134–36, 186–87; congressional interviews after arrest, 151; debriefings of Ames, 155–58; FBI investigation, 85–86, 145–48; financial investigation, 122, 125, 142–43; polygraph examination, 126, 186
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