false 273058 <![CDATA[Betrayal: The Story of Aldrich Ames, an American Spy]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223676332m/273058.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223676332s/273058.jpg New York Times reporters, was an incompetent, office-bound, alcoholic spy in the middle of an undistinguished career. Even so, he was promoted to lead the counterintelligence branch of the CIA's central Soviet division, and there, in 1983, he began calling for the files on every important CIA operation involving Soviet spies in every corner of the world. He sold these files to the Soviets in order to fund tastes not appropriate to his salary; dozens of U.S. operatives were exposed, and many were killed.

Until his arrest and conviction for espionage in 1994, Ames received nearly $3 million for his treason, about which he was quite unsubtle. Yet the CIA took years to wonder why Ames could afford an expensive home in a Washington, D.C., suburb and frequent weekend trips to Europe. The agency was so slow to act, the authors suggest, because its leadership was more concerned with institutional self-preservation than with doing its job properly. This suspenseful book draws on interviews with Ames himself to show that major housecleaning is in order at Langley.

]]> 273058 3 264751 book 6 6 1995 Betrayal: The Story of Aldrich Ames, an American Spy total:14|5:1|4:8|3:4|1:1| 14 50 26 1 159090 3.81 1015 285 64107197 968472 273058 067944050X 9780679440505 1 <![CDATA[Betrayal: The Story of Aldrich Ames, an American Spy]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223676332m/273058.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223676332s/273058.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/273058.Betrayal_The_Story_of_Aldrich_Ames_an_American_Spy 3.54 13 New York Times reporters, was an incompetent, office-bound, alcoholic spy in the middle of an undistinguished career. Even so, he was promoted to lead the counterintelligence branch of the CIA's central Soviet division, and there, in 1983, he began calling for the files on every important CIA operation involving Soviet spies in every corner of the world. He sold these files to the Soviets in order to fund tastes not appropriate to his salary; dozens of U.S. operatives were exposed, and many were killed.

Until his arrest and conviction for espionage in 1994, Ames received nearly $3 million for his treason, about which he was quite unsubtle. Yet the CIA took years to wonder why Ames could afford an expensive home in a Washington, D.C., suburb and frequent weekend trips to Europe. The agency was so slow to act, the authors suggest, because its leadership was more concerned with institutional self-preservation than with doing its job properly. This suspenseful book draws on interviews with Ames himself to show that major housecleaning is in order at Langley.

]]> 1995 4 0 false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1995 Sun Jul 19 11:57:55 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 19 12:00:36 -0700 2009 79800033 2919331 273058 067944050X 9780679440505 1 <![CDATA[Betrayal: The Story of Aldrich Ames, an American Spy]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223676332m/273058.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223676332s/273058.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/273058.Betrayal_The_Story_of_Aldrich_Ames_an_American_Spy 3.57 14 New York Times reporters, was an incompetent, office-bound, alcoholic spy in the middle of an undistinguished career. Even so, he was promoted to lead the counterintelligence branch of the CIA's central Soviet division, and there, in 1983, he began calling for the files on every important CIA operation involving Soviet spies in every corner of the world. He sold these files to the Soviets in order to fund tastes not appropriate to his salary; dozens of U.S. operatives were exposed, and many were killed.

Until his arrest and conviction for espionage in 1994, Ames received nearly $3 million for his treason, about which he was quite unsubtle. Yet the CIA took years to wonder why Ames could afford an expensive home in a Washington, D.C., suburb and frequent weekend trips to Europe. The agency was so slow to act, the authors suggest, because its leadership was more concerned with institutional self-preservation than with doing its job properly. This suspenseful book draws on interviews with Ames himself to show that major housecleaning is in order at Langley.

]]> 1995 0 0 false Thu Dec 03 15:48:09 -0800 2009 Thu Dec 03 15:48:09 -0800 2009 76437873 2900697 273058 067944050X 9780679440505 1 <![CDATA[Betrayal: The Story of Aldrich Ames, an American Spy]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223676332m/273058.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223676332s/273058.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/273058.Betrayal_The_Story_of_Aldrich_Ames_an_American_Spy 3.57 14 New York Times reporters, was an incompetent, office-bound, alcoholic spy in the middle of an undistinguished career. Even so, he was promoted to lead the counterintelligence branch of the CIA's central Soviet division, and there, in 1983, he began calling for the files on every important CIA operation involving Soviet spies in every corner of the world. He sold these files to the Soviets in order to fund tastes not appropriate to his salary; dozens of U.S. operatives were exposed, and many were killed.

Until his arrest and conviction for espionage in 1994, Ames received nearly $3 million for his treason, about which he was quite unsubtle. Yet the CIA took years to wonder why Ames could afford an expensive home in a Washington, D.C., suburb and frequent weekend trips to Europe. The agency was so slow to act, the authors suggest, because its leadership was more concerned with institutional self-preservation than with doing its job properly. This suspenseful book draws on interviews with Ames himself to show that major housecleaning is in order at Langley.

]]> 1995 0 0 false Sun Nov 01 23:23:25 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 01 23:23:25 -0800 2009 68987294 662989 273058 067944050X 9780679440505 1 <![CDATA[Betrayal: The Story of Aldrich Ames, an American Spy]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223676332m/273058.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223676332s/273058.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/273058.Betrayal_The_Story_of_Aldrich_Ames_an_American_Spy 3.57 14 New York Times reporters, was an incompetent, office-bound, alcoholic spy in the middle of an undistinguished career. Even so, he was promoted to lead the counterintelligence branch of the CIA's central Soviet division, and there, in 1983, he began calling for the files on every important CIA operation involving Soviet spies in every corner of the world. He sold these files to the Soviets in order to fund tastes not appropriate to his salary; dozens of U.S. operatives were exposed, and many were killed.

Until his arrest and conviction for espionage in 1994, Ames received nearly $3 million for his treason, about which he was quite unsubtle. Yet the CIA took years to wonder why Ames could afford an expensive home in a Washington, D.C., suburb and frequent weekend trips to Europe. The agency was so slow to act, the authors suggest, because its leadership was more concerned with institutional self-preservation than with doing its job properly. This suspenseful book draws on interviews with Ames himself to show that major housecleaning is in order at Langley.

]]> 1995 0 0 false Wed Aug 26 13:14:09 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 26 13:14:09 -0700 2009 59039344 1552791 273058 067944050X 9780679440505 1 <![CDATA[Betrayal: The Story of Aldrich Ames, an American Spy]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223676332m/273058.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223676332s/273058.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/273058.Betrayal_The_Story_of_Aldrich_Ames_an_American_Spy 3.57 14 New York Times reporters, was an incompetent, office-bound, alcoholic spy in the middle of an undistinguished career. Even so, he was promoted to lead the counterintelligence branch of the CIA's central Soviet division, and there, in 1983, he began calling for the files on every important CIA operation involving Soviet spies in every corner of the world. He sold these files to the Soviets in order to fund tastes not appropriate to his salary; dozens of U.S. operatives were exposed, and many were killed.

Until his arrest and conviction for espionage in 1994, Ames received nearly $3 million for his treason, about which he was quite unsubtle. Yet the CIA took years to wonder why Ames could afford an expensive home in a Washington, D.C., suburb and frequent weekend trips to Europe. The agency was so slow to act, the authors suggest, because its leadership was more concerned with institutional self-preservation than with doing its job properly. This suspenseful book draws on interviews with Ames himself to show that major housecleaning is in order at Langley.

]]> 1995 0 0 false Tue Jun 09 14:14:14 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 09 14:14:14 -0700 2009 43740445 1932008 273058 067944050X 9780679440505 1 <![CDATA[Betrayal: The Story of Aldrich Ames, an American Spy]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223676332m/273058.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223676332s/273058.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/273058.Betrayal_The_Story_of_Aldrich_Ames_an_American_Spy 3.57 14 New York Times reporters, was an incompetent, office-bound, alcoholic spy in the middle of an undistinguished career. Even so, he was promoted to lead the counterintelligence branch of the CIA's central Soviet division, and there, in 1983, he began calling for the files on every important CIA operation involving Soviet spies in every corner of the world. He sold these files to the Soviets in order to fund tastes not appropriate to his salary; dozens of U.S. operatives were exposed, and many were killed.

Until his arrest and conviction for espionage in 1994, Ames received nearly $3 million for his treason, about which he was quite unsubtle. Yet the CIA took years to wonder why Ames could afford an expensive home in a Washington, D.C., suburb and frequent weekend trips to Europe. The agency was so slow to act, the authors suggest, because its leadership was more concerned with institutional self-preservation than with doing its job properly. This suspenseful book draws on interviews with Ames himself to show that major housecleaning is in order at Langley.

]]> 1995 0 0 false Tue Jan 20 15:58:40 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 20 15:58:40 -0800 2009 41879683 1861874 273058 067944050X 9780679440505 1 <![CDATA[Betrayal: The Story of Aldrich Ames, an American Spy]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223676332m/273058.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223676332s/273058.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/273058.Betrayal_The_Story_of_Aldrich_Ames_an_American_Spy 3.57 14 New York Times reporters, was an incompetent, office-bound, alcoholic spy in the middle of an undistinguished career. Even so, he was promoted to lead the counterintelligence branch of the CIA's central Soviet division, and there, in 1983, he began calling for the files on every important CIA operation involving Soviet spies in every corner of the world. He sold these files to the Soviets in order to fund tastes not appropriate to his salary; dozens of U.S. operatives were exposed, and many were killed.

Until his arrest and conviction for espionage in 1994, Ames received nearly $3 million for his treason, about which he was quite unsubtle. Yet the CIA took years to wonder why Ames could afford an expensive home in a Washington, D.C., suburb and frequent weekend trips to Europe. The agency was so slow to act, the authors suggest, because its leadership was more concerned with institutional self-preservation than with doing its job properly. This suspenseful book draws on interviews with Ames himself to show that major housecleaning is in order at Langley.

]]> 1995 5 0 false Sun Jan 04 15:20:34 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 04 15:20:38 -0800 2009 36660196 1419003 273058 067944050X 9780679440505 1 <![CDATA[Betrayal: The Story of Aldrich Ames, an American Spy]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223676332m/273058.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223676332s/273058.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/273058.Betrayal_The_Story_of_Aldrich_Ames_an_American_Spy 3.57 14 New York Times reporters, was an incompetent, office-bound, alcoholic spy in the middle of an undistinguished career. Even so, he was promoted to lead the counterintelligence branch of the CIA's central Soviet division, and there, in 1983, he began calling for the files on every important CIA operation involving Soviet spies in every corner of the world. He sold these files to the Soviets in order to fund tastes not appropriate to his salary; dozens of U.S. operatives were exposed, and many were killed.

Until his arrest and conviction for espionage in 1994, Ames received nearly $3 million for his treason, about which he was quite unsubtle. Yet the CIA took years to wonder why Ames could afford an expensive home in a Washington, D.C., suburb and frequent weekend trips to Europe. The agency was so slow to act, the authors suggest, because its leadership was more concerned with institutional self-preservation than with doing its job properly. This suspenseful book draws on interviews with Ames himself to show that major housecleaning is in order at Langley.

]]> 1995 3 0 false Fri Oct 31 19:50:46 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 31 19:50:46 -0700 2008 34467872 1584851 273058 067944050X 9780679440505 1 <![CDATA[Betrayal: The Story of Aldrich Ames, an American Spy]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223676332m/273058.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223676332s/273058.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/273058.Betrayal_The_Story_of_Aldrich_Ames_an_American_Spy 3.57 14 New York Times reporters, was an incompetent, office-bound, alcoholic spy in the middle of an undistinguished career. Even so, he was promoted to lead the counterintelligence branch of the CIA's central Soviet division, and there, in 1983, he began calling for the files on every important CIA operation involving Soviet spies in every corner of the world. He sold these files to the Soviets in order to fund tastes not appropriate to his salary; dozens of U.S. operatives were exposed, and many were killed.

Until his arrest and conviction for espionage in 1994, Ames received nearly $3 million for his treason, about which he was quite unsubtle. Yet the CIA took years to wonder why Ames could afford an expensive home in a Washington, D.C., suburb and frequent weekend trips to Europe. The agency was so slow to act, the authors suggest, because its leadership was more concerned with institutional self-preservation than with doing its job properly. This suspenseful book draws on interviews with Ames himself to show that major housecleaning is in order at Langley.

]]> 1995 4 0 false Fri Oct 03 16:22:22 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 03 16:22:22 -0700 2008 34026118 1336082 273058 067944050X 9780679440505 1 <![CDATA[Betrayal: The Story of Aldrich Ames, an American Spy]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223676332m/273058.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223676332s/273058.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/273058.Betrayal_The_Story_of_Aldrich_Ames_an_American_Spy 3.57 14 New York Times reporters, was an incompetent, office-bound, alcoholic spy in the middle of an undistinguished career. Even so, he was promoted to lead the counterintelligence branch of the CIA's central Soviet division, and there, in 1983, he began calling for the files on every important CIA operation involving Soviet spies in every corner of the world. He sold these files to the Soviets in order to fund tastes not appropriate to his salary; dozens of U.S. operatives were exposed, and many were killed.

Until his arrest and conviction for espionage in 1994, Ames received nearly $3 million for his treason, about which he was quite unsubtle. Yet the CIA took years to wonder why Ames could afford an expensive home in a Washington, D.C., suburb and frequent weekend trips to Europe. The agency was so slow to act, the authors suggest, because its leadership was more concerned with institutional self-preservation than with doing its job properly. This suspenseful book draws on interviews with Ames himself to show that major housecleaning is in order at Langley.

]]> 1995 0 0 false Sun Sep 28 06:50:11 -0700 2008 Sun Sep 28 06:50:11 -0700 2008 28041937 1267056 273058 067944050X 9780679440505 1 <![CDATA[Betrayal: The Story of Aldrich Ames, an American Spy]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223676332m/273058.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223676332s/273058.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/273058.Betrayal_The_Story_of_Aldrich_Ames_an_American_Spy 3.57 14 New York Times reporters, was an incompetent, office-bound, alcoholic spy in the middle of an undistinguished career. Even so, he was promoted to lead the counterintelligence branch of the CIA's central Soviet division, and there, in 1983, he began calling for the files on every important CIA operation involving Soviet spies in every corner of the world. He sold these files to the Soviets in order to fund tastes not appropriate to his salary; dozens of U.S. operatives were exposed, and many were killed.

Until his arrest and conviction for espionage in 1994, Ames received nearly $3 million for his treason, about which he was quite unsubtle. Yet the CIA took years to wonder why Ames could afford an expensive home in a Washington, D.C., suburb and frequent weekend trips to Europe. The agency was so slow to act, the authors suggest, because its leadership was more concerned with institutional self-preservation than with doing its job properly. This suspenseful book draws on interviews with Ames himself to show that major housecleaning is in order at Langley.

]]> 1995 3 0 false Mon Jul 28 10:43:01 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 23 06:55:31 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 28 10:43:01 -0700 2008 25796622 1264239 273058 067944050X 9780679440505 1 <![CDATA[Betrayal: The Story of Aldrich Ames, an American Spy]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223676332m/273058.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223676332s/273058.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/273058.Betrayal_The_Story_of_Aldrich_Ames_an_American_Spy 3.57 14 New York Times reporters, was an incompetent, office-bound, alcoholic spy in the middle of an undistinguished career. Even so, he was promoted to lead the counterintelligence branch of the CIA's central Soviet division, and there, in 1983, he began calling for the files on every important CIA operation involving Soviet spies in every corner of the world. He sold these files to the Soviets in order to fund tastes not appropriate to his salary; dozens of U.S. operatives were exposed, and many were killed.

Until his arrest and conviction for espionage in 1994, Ames received nearly $3 million for his treason, about which he was quite unsubtle. Yet the CIA took years to wonder why Ames could afford an expensive home in a Washington, D.C., suburb and frequent weekend trips to Europe. The agency was so slow to act, the authors suggest, because its leadership was more concerned with institutional self-preservation than with doing its job properly. This suspenseful book draws on interviews with Ames himself to show that major housecleaning is in order at Langley.

]]> 1995 3 0 false Sat Jun 28 21:12:45 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 28 21:12:45 -0700 2008 24953495 1248204 1233080 1568953127 9781568953120 0 <![CDATA[Betrayal: The Story of Aldrich Ames, an American Spy]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1233080.Betrayal_The_Story_of_Aldrich_Ames_an_American_Spy 4.00 1 New York Times reporters, was an incompetent, office-bound, alcoholic spy in the middle of an undistinguished career. Even so, he was promoted to lead the counterintelligence branch of the CIA's central Soviet division, and there, in 1983, he began calling for the files on every important CIA operation involving Soviet spies in every corner of the world. He sold these files to the Soviets in order to fund tastes not appropriate to his salary; dozens of U.S. operatives were exposed, and many were killed.

Until his arrest and conviction for espionage in 1994, Ames received nearly $3 million for his treason, about which he was quite unsubtle. Yet the CIA took years to wonder why Ames could afford an expensive home in a Washington, D.C., suburb and frequent weekend trips to Europe. The agency was so slow to act, the authors suggest, because its leadership was more concerned with institutional self-preservation than with doing its job properly. This suspenseful book draws on interviews with Ames himself to show that major housecleaning is in order at Langley.

]]> 1995 4 0 false Thu Jun 19 20:53:23 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 19 20:53:23 -0700 2008 23645336 1150401 273058 067944050X 9780679440505 1 <![CDATA[Betrayal: The Story of Aldrich Ames, an American Spy]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223676332m/273058.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223676332s/273058.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/273058.Betrayal_The_Story_of_Aldrich_Ames_an_American_Spy 3.57 14 New York Times reporters, was an incompetent, office-bound, alcoholic spy in the middle of an undistinguished career. Even so, he was promoted to lead the counterintelligence branch of the CIA's central Soviet division, and there, in 1983, he began calling for the files on every important CIA operation involving Soviet spies in every corner of the world. He sold these files to the Soviets in order to fund tastes not appropriate to his salary; dozens of U.S. operatives were exposed, and many were killed.

Until his arrest and conviction for espionage in 1994, Ames received nearly $3 million for his treason, about which he was quite unsubtle. Yet the CIA took years to wonder why Ames could afford an expensive home in a Washington, D.C., suburb and frequent weekend trips to Europe. The agency was so slow to act, the authors suggest, because its leadership was more concerned with institutional self-preservation than with doing its job properly. This suspenseful book draws on interviews with Ames himself to show that major housecleaning is in order at Langley.

]]> 1995 4 0 false Tue Jun 03 18:40:53 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 03 18:40:55 -0700 2008 20571572 1096046 273058 067944050X 9780679440505 1 <![CDATA[Betrayal: The Story of Aldrich Ames, an American Spy]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223676332m/273058.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223676332s/273058.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/273058.Betrayal_The_Story_of_Aldrich_Ames_an_American_Spy 3.57 14 New York Times reporters, was an incompetent, office-bound, alcoholic spy in the middle of an undistinguished career. Even so, he was promoted to lead the counterintelligence branch of the CIA's central Soviet division, and there, in 1983, he began calling for the files on every important CIA operation involving Soviet spies in every corner of the world. He sold these files to the Soviets in order to fund tastes not appropriate to his salary; dozens of U.S. operatives were exposed, and many were killed.

Until his arrest and conviction for espionage in 1994, Ames received nearly $3 million for his treason, about which he was quite unsubtle. Yet the CIA took years to wonder why Ames could afford an expensive home in a Washington, D.C., suburb and frequent weekend trips to Europe. The agency was so slow to act, the authors suggest, because its leadership was more concerned with institutional self-preservation than with doing its job properly. This suspenseful book draws on interviews with Ames himself to show that major housecleaning is in order at Langley.

]]> 1995 4 0 false Sun Apr 20 08:04:36 -0700 2008 Sun Apr 20 08:04:36 -0700 2008 18284646 1011379 273058 067944050X 9780679440505 1 <![CDATA[Betrayal: The Story of Aldrich Ames, an American Spy]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223676332m/273058.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223676332s/273058.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/273058.Betrayal_The_Story_of_Aldrich_Ames_an_American_Spy 3.57 14 New York Times reporters, was an incompetent, office-bound, alcoholic spy in the middle of an undistinguished career. Even so, he was promoted to lead the counterintelligence branch of the CIA's central Soviet division, and there, in 1983, he began calling for the files on every important CIA operation involving Soviet spies in every corner of the world. He sold these files to the Soviets in order to fund tastes not appropriate to his salary; dozens of U.S. operatives were exposed, and many were killed.

Until his arrest and conviction for espionage in 1994, Ames received nearly $3 million for his treason, about which he was quite unsubtle. Yet the CIA took years to wonder why Ames could afford an expensive home in a Washington, D.C., suburb and frequent weekend trips to Europe. The agency was so slow to act, the authors suggest, because its leadership was more concerned with institutional self-preservation than with doing its job properly. This suspenseful book draws on interviews with Ames himself to show that major housecleaning is in order at Langley.

]]> 1995 4 0 false Fri Mar 21 08:23:19 -0700 2008 Fri Mar 21 08:23:19 -0700 2008 17440854 964955 273058 067944050X 9780679440505 1 <![CDATA[Betrayal: The Story of Aldrich Ames, an American Spy]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223676332m/273058.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223676332s/273058.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/273058.Betrayal_The_Story_of_Aldrich_Ames_an_American_Spy 3.57 14 New York Times reporters, was an incompetent, office-bound, alcoholic spy in the middle of an undistinguished career. Even so, he was promoted to lead the counterintelligence branch of the CIA's central Soviet division, and there, in 1983, he began calling for the files on every important CIA operation involving Soviet spies in every corner of the world. He sold these files to the Soviets in order to fund tastes not appropriate to his salary; dozens of U.S. operatives were exposed, and many were killed.

Until his arrest and conviction for espionage in 1994, Ames received nearly $3 million for his treason, about which he was quite unsubtle. Yet the CIA took years to wonder why Ames could afford an expensive home in a Washington, D.C., suburb and frequent weekend trips to Europe. The agency was so slow to act, the authors suggest, because its leadership was more concerned with institutional self-preservation than with doing its job properly. This suspenseful book draws on interviews with Ames himself to show that major housecleaning is in order at Langley.

]]> 1995 3 0 false Mon Mar 10 10:51:39 -0700 2008 Mon Mar 10 10:51:39 -0700 2008 16287243 888923 1233080 1568953127 9781568953120 0 <![CDATA[Betrayal: The Story of Aldrich Ames, an American Spy]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1233080.Betrayal_The_Story_of_Aldrich_Ames_an_American_Spy 3.57 14 New York Times reporters, was an incompetent, office-bound, alcoholic spy in the middle of an undistinguished career. Even so, he was promoted to lead the counterintelligence branch of the CIA's central Soviet division, and there, in 1983, he began calling for the files on every important CIA operation involving Soviet spies in every corner of the world. He sold these files to the Soviets in order to fund tastes not appropriate to his salary; dozens of U.S. operatives were exposed, and many were killed.

Until his arrest and conviction for espionage in 1994, Ames received nearly $3 million for his treason, about which he was quite unsubtle. Yet the CIA took years to wonder why Ames could afford an expensive home in a Washington, D.C., suburb and frequent weekend trips to Europe. The agency was so slow to act, the authors suggest, because its leadership was more concerned with institutional self-preservation than with doing its job properly. This suspenseful book draws on interviews with Ames himself to show that major housecleaning is in order at Langley.

]]> 1995 0 0 false Sun Feb 24 19:23:33 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 24 19:30:12 -0800 2008 14310623 865146 273058 067944050X 9780679440505 1 <![CDATA[Betrayal: The Story of Aldrich Ames, an American Spy]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223676332m/273058.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223676332s/273058.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/273058.Betrayal_The_Story_of_Aldrich_Ames_an_American_Spy 3.57 14 New York Times reporters, was an incompetent, office-bound, alcoholic spy in the middle of an undistinguished career. Even so, he was promoted to lead the counterintelligence branch of the CIA's central Soviet division, and there, in 1983, he began calling for the files on every important CIA operation involving Soviet spies in every corner of the world. He sold these files to the Soviets in order to fund tastes not appropriate to his salary; dozens of U.S. operatives were exposed, and many were killed.

Until his arrest and conviction for espionage in 1994, Ames received nearly $3 million for his treason, about which he was quite unsubtle. Yet the CIA took years to wonder why Ames could afford an expensive home in a Washington, D.C., suburb and frequent weekend trips to Europe. The agency was so slow to act, the authors suggest, because its leadership was more concerned with institutional self-preservation than with doing its job properly. This suspenseful book draws on interviews with Ames himself to show that major housecleaning is in order at Langley.

]]> 1995 0 0 false Fri Feb 01 15:38:29 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 01 15:38:29 -0800 2008 12669552 632026 273058 067944050X 9780679440505 1 <![CDATA[Betrayal: The Story of Aldrich Ames, an American Spy]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223676332m/273058.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223676332s/273058.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/273058.Betrayal_The_Story_of_Aldrich_Ames_an_American_Spy 3.57 14 New York Times reporters, was an incompetent, office-bound, alcoholic spy in the middle of an undistinguished career. Even so, he was promoted to lead the counterintelligence branch of the CIA's central Soviet division, and there, in 1983, he began calling for the files on every important CIA operation involving Soviet spies in every corner of the world. He sold these files to the Soviets in order to fund tastes not appropriate to his salary; dozens of U.S. operatives were exposed, and many were killed.

Until his arrest and conviction for espionage in 1994, Ames received nearly $3 million for his treason, about which he was quite unsubtle. Yet the CIA took years to wonder why Ames could afford an expensive home in a Washington, D.C., suburb and frequent weekend trips to Europe. The agency was so slow to act, the authors suggest, because its leadership was more concerned with institutional self-preservation than with doing its job properly. This suspenseful book draws on interviews with Ames himself to show that major housecleaning is in order at Langley.

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