‘Rick is a goddamn Russian spy’: Does the CIA have a new Aldrich Ames on its hands?

Aldrich “Rick” Ames was desperate for money. It was the mid-1980s, and the CIA’s senior counterintelligence officer in the Soviet division had also grown disillusioned with his employer and the spy games between the United States and Soviet Union. So, on June 13 1985, inside his Langley office, Ames made a bold decision. He packed up a six-pound stack of documents that showed the case files and cryptonyms of some of the agency’s best Soviet sources, each with code names such as TICKLE, GENTILE, MILLION and JOGGER.