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Catching a Russian Spy (FBI Files): Agent Les Wiser Jr. and the Case of Aldrich Ames

Series FBI Files By Bryan Denson
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Hardcover edition

Publisher Macmillan Imprint Roaring Brook ISBN

9781250199164

Catching a Russian Spy (FBI Files): Agent Les Wiser Jr. and the Case of Aldrich Ames

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Violence: War/Harsh Realities of War

Aldrich H. "Rick" Ames was a thirty-one-year veteran of the CIA. He was also a Russian spy. By the time Ames was arrested in 1994, he had betrayed the identities of dozens and caused the deaths of ten agents. The notorious KGB (and later the Russian intelligence service, SVR) paid him millions of dollars.



Agent Leslie G. “Les” Wiser Jr. ran the FBI's Nightmover investigation tasked with uncovering a mole in the CIA. The team worked night and day to collect evidence—sneaking into Ames's home, hiding a homing beacon in his Jaguar, and installing a video camera above his desk. But the spy kept one step ahead, even after agents followed him to Bogota, Colombia. In a crazy twist, the FBI would score its biggest clue from inside Ames's garbage can.



Key characters. Epilogue with photographs. Author’s note. “The Wall of Honor.” Time line of Aldrich Ames’s life. Map. Glossary. Sources. Index.
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