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A 10 page research paper that examines the effect that Aldrich Ames, a US CIA executive who sold information to the Soviet for nine years towards the end of the Cold War in the 1980s, had on US intelligence, US foreign relations, and the outcome of the Cold War. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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of the CIA, the men and women who actively go into the field to gather intelligence on enemy activities (Adams 10). Ames succeeded in tracking down and identifying all of
the CIAs major sources in the Soviet Union and then passed their names on to Moscow. At least ten of these agents were subsequently executed by the KGB, including "Top
Hat," the man who proved to be the most valuable source the CIA ever recruited in the Soviet Union (Adams 10). Ames also endangered the man who was the most
important asset ever recruited by the British intelligence inside the KGB (Adams 10). For the vast majority of his career, Ames worked in the Soviet/East European Division of the
Operations Directorate of the CIA, which is the single most important area within the Agency, as its focus was on getting secret intelligence against the Soviet (Adams 13). It was
this part of the CIA that gathered and circulated to the president and the joint chiefs of staff information to aid them in making decisions about peace and war (Adams
13). It was in this section of the CIA that the "Cold War could?literally?have been won or lost" (Adams 13). This is where Aldrich Ames worked. According to
one Western intelligence official, the commitment of Ames to his task was absolute, he acted like a "vacuum cleaner, sweeping everything up that came within range and passing it along"
(Adams 10). Ames effectively destroyed, single-handedly, CIA operations against the Soviet Union at the end of the 1980s. As Communism was collapsing and democracy was struggling to emerge, the US
had no operating sources within the Soviet Union. The total effect that this had on the Cold War is still being assessed. In 1995, author James Adams reported in
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