Sellout

Fülszöveg

Aldrich Ames was a downwardly mobile CIA officer with a
serious inferiority complex and an even more serious drink
problem. Yet to the KGB he was the most important recruit
since Kim Philby. And Ames was special. His betrayal would
make him a multimillionaire, cause the death of at least ten
of America's best agents, and single-handedly destroy a
superpower's Cold War intelligence operation
On 21 February 1994 Aldrich Ames and his wife Rosario were
finally arrested outside their home by the FBI. It was the end of the
biggest spy hunt in American history - and the beginning of
the biggest scandal ever to hit the CIA. But why was Ames not
caught sooner? And who, in the end, was to blame?
Sellout is the first major investigation of the Ames affair.
James Adams, world-renowned expert on intelligence affairs,
chronicles the unfolding drama of Ames' treachery, the terrible
damage he caused, and the massive operation that finally
trapped him.
The worst spying scandal... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Aldrich Ames was a downwardly mobile CIA officer with a
serious inferiority complex and an even more serious drink
problem. Yet to the KGB he was the most important recruit
since Kim Philby. And Ames was special. His betrayal would
make him a multimillionaire, cause the death of at least ten
of America's best agents, and single-handedly destroy a
superpower's Cold War intelligence operation
On 21 February 1994 Aldrich Ames and his wife Rosario were
finally arrested outside their home by the FBI. It was the end of the
biggest spy hunt in American history - and the beginning of
the biggest scandal ever to hit the CIA. But why was Ames not
caught sooner? And who, in the end, was to blame?
Sellout is the first major investigation of the Ames affair.
James Adams, world-renowned expert on intelligence affairs,
chronicles the unfolding drama of Ames' treachery, the terrible
damage he caused, and the massive operation that finally
trapped him.
The worst spying scandal in American history this whole story
of the CIA's staggering incompetence somehow beggars belief'
- Stephen Robinson in the Sunday Telegraph
'James Adams tells the story masterfully and engagingly This
book helps us understand much about international politics in the
period between the end of the Cold War and the beginning of
the post-Communist era'
- Oleg Gordievsky in the Sunday Times
Cover photograph © Kevin Schafer/Tony Stone Images Vissza