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When Ames was posted to Mexico City in 1981, Nancy did not follow. As in Ankara and New York, Ames was assigned to the CIA's Soviet/East Europe (S.E.) division to hunt potential agents. At that time, with President Reagan soon to embark on a crusade against the "Evil Empire...
The younger Ames' interest in spycatching may have been stoked by his father, a pipe-smoking member of the CIA counterintelligence staff created and run by the monomaniacal mole hunter James Jesus Angleton. But Carleton had an undistinguished career tracking communist parties and front groups. After he retired from the...
At the time, Rick Ames did not have a college degree, which hindered him in his pursuit of the case-officer position he coveted. In 1967 he graduated from George Washington University with a bachelor's degree in history. By then he apparently was already evading notice: his picture does...
In 1969 Ames and first wife Nancy, who worked with him in the CIA, were posted to Ankara, Turkey. With the northeastern frontier of that country bordering on the Soviet Union, this was a prime CIA post for recruiting agents for the U.S. from the local assortment of Soviet embassy...
Ames returned to the CIA's Langley headquarters in 1972, where he reportedly spent the next five years brushing up his analytic skills. The year Jimmy Carter was elected President, Ames moved north to New York City, where he did what most CIA spycatchers do when they're posted to...