Jailed spy Ames ridicules novel William Safire's thriller contains character similar to CIA renegade FIRST Edition

WASHINGTON - Jailed CIA turncoat Aldrich Ames, the most destructive spy in U.S. history, has popped up as a literary critic to savage a spy thriller. Ames, who was arrested in February 1994, ridiculed "Sleeper Spy: A Novel of Deception," by William Safire, a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnis...

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Published inThe San Francisco examiner
Main Author Wolf, Jim
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published San Francisco, Calif San Francisco Media Company 30.11.1995
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Summary:WASHINGTON - Jailed CIA turncoat Aldrich Ames, the most destructive spy in U.S. history, has popped up as a literary critic to savage a spy thriller. Ames, who was arrested in February 1994, ridiculed "Sleeper Spy: A Novel of Deception," by William Safire, a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for the New York Times and a best-selling author. Not entirely unlike Ames himself, one of the novel's main characters is a KGB spy dealing in information and disinformation to confuse the old KGB, the new KGB and the CIA.
ISSN:2574-593X