Confessions of a Spy: The Real Story of Aldrich Ames PDF
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I J The Real Story of ALDRICH AMES Author of Family of Sph A. $27.50 ada $37.50 "There are things that hav out f about this case. There are still secrets that - * J. only a few know. " —Aldrich Ames to Pete Parley Confessions of a Spy is the first and only complete story of the "spy of the century"—the story that no one could tell until now—from the author of the bestselling Family of Spies. When Aldrich Ames was arrested in February 1994, he had been feeding the KGB information for nine years; he had been paid more than two and a half million dollars, with the promise of two million more; and he had been personally responsible for the betrayal that led to the execution of most of the United States' top assets in the Soviet Union. Never before had one man done so much damage to American security. Several books about the case were immediately rushed to publication. But Pete Barley knew that the truth could not be hurried, that it would take time and patient investigation to uncover the real story—and he did. Pete Barley is the only writer to conduct fifty hours of one-on-one interviews with Ames, with- out a government censor present. He is the only writer to have traveled to Moscow to speak to Ames's KGB handlers and with the families of the spies he betrayed. He is the only writer to have had access to the remarkable CIA mole-hunting team that tracked down Ames through its own detective work. The result is a portrait of a much more complex and diabolical man than has previously been depicted; an account of damage far worse than has ever been chronicled, including startling reve- lations of unreported double agents and scandal in high Washington circles; and a story of three women—a gray-haired lady in tennis shoes, a knockout blonde, and a shy, gum-chewing secre- tary—who bucked every obstacle the CIA male establishment could throw at them, to expose perhaps the most devastating spy in modern U.S. history. This is an extraordinary human drama, a mod- ern morality play charged wi+h <:o-v nreed, betrayal, and heroism—and ding. 9702 CONFESSIONS OF A SPY PETE EARLEY CONFESSIONS OF A SPY AMES G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS NEW YORK G. R Putnam's Sons Publishers Since 1838 200 Madison Avenue New York, NY 10016 Copyright © 1997 by Pete Earley, Inc. All rights reserved. This book, or parts thereof, may not be reproduced in any form without permission. Published simultaneously in Canada Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Earley, Pete. Confessions of a spy: the real story of Aldrich Ames / Pete Earley. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 0-399-14188-X 1. Ames, Aldrich Hazen, 1941- . 2. United States. Central Intelligence Agency. 3. Intelligence officers—United States. 4. Intelligence service—United States. 5. Espionage, Soviet— United States. I. Title. JK468.I6E27 1997 327.12,092—dc20 96-18425 CIP [B] 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 This book is printed on acid-free paper. 0 Book design by Kate Nichols FOR KEVIN Ml CONTENTS PROLOGUE: THE DRAMA BEGINS 1 PART ONE: THE SEEDS 15 PART TWO: LOVE AND BETRAYAL B9 PART THREE: FALSE STARTS 171 PART FOUR: NOT A CARE IN THE WORLD 255 PART FIVE: A FINAL PERFORMANCE 303 SOURCES 353 SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 363 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 365
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