18. A Mole in Their Midst: The CIA and Aldrich Ames

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Documents vii
4. Foreword xi
5. Acknowledgements xiii
6. Introduction 1
7. 1. Intelligence for an American Century: Creating the CIA 8
8. 2. The Development of CIA Covert Action 42
9. 3. A ‘Gangster Act’: The Berlin Tunnel 54
10. 4. The CIA and the USSR: The Challenge of Understanding the Soviet Threat 64
11. 5. Anglo-American Intelligence Liaison and the Outbreak of the Korean War 77
12. 6. The CIA and the Bomber and Missile Gap 100
13. 7. The CIA and Cuba: The Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis 112
14. 8. The CIA in Vietnam 127
15. 9. The CIA and Arms Control 156
16. 10. The CIA’s Counter-Intelligence Conundrum: The Case of Yuri Nosenko 171
17. 11. 1975: The Year of the ‘Intelligence Wars’ 190
18. 12. Watching Khomeini 197
19. 13. The CIA and the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan 211
20. 14. Martial Law in Poland 226
21. 15. Able Archer and the NATO War Scare 264
22. 16. The Soviet Leadership and Kremlinology in the 1980s 308
23. 17. The CIA and the (First) Persian Gulf War 341
24. 18. A Mole in Their Midst: The CIA and Aldrich Ames 361
25. 19. ‘The System was Blinking Red’: The Peace Dividend and the Road to 9/11 395
26. 20. Reckoning and Redemption: The 9/11 Commission, the Director of National Intelligence and the CIA at War 407
27. 21. The ‘Slam Dunk’: The CIA and the Invasion of Iraq 427
28. 22. The Terrorist Hunters Become Political Quarry: The CIA and Rendition, Detention and Interrogation 451
29. 23. Innovation at the CIA: From Sputnik to Silicon Valley and Venona to Vault 7 469
30. 24. Entering the Electoral Fray: The CIA and Russian Meddling in the 2016 Election 481
31. 25. Flying Blind? The CIA and the Trump Administration 493
32. Bibliography 503
33. Index 528