Latin America. Run by the American defense attachés attached to U.S.
embassies in the western hemisphere during World War II, AIC ran
into numerous problems and points of conflict with Special Intelli-
gence Service (SIS) agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
(FBI). These jurisdictional disputes continued throughout the war and
were only addressed by the establishment of the Central Intelligence
Group (CIG) in 1946.AMES, ALDRICH (1941– ). Aldrich Ames was a mid-level employee
of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) who was arrested in 1994
for spying for the Russians. Ames entered CIAduty in 1967 as a case
officer, working primarily against the Soviet Union. He later was
transferred to counterintelligence duties against Soviet targets. Ac-
cording to his own statements, Ames began providing information to
the Soviets in April 1985 and continued these activities even after the
Soviet Union collapsed in 1991. According to damage assessments,
Ames provided Moscow the largest amount of secret information in
the history of American intelligence, including the identities of
eleven assets of the CIAand the Federal Bureau of Investigation
(FBI) inside the Soviet Union who were reporting on Soviet activi-
ties and who were promptly executed when identified.
In August 1985, Ames was selected as one of the CIAofficers to
debrief defector Vitaly Yurchenko. Ames reportedly told his han-
dlers at the Soviet Embassy in Washington everything Yurchenko
was telling his interrogators. Both the CIAand the FBI became sus-
picious of Ames’s activities in the mid-1980s and began clandes-
tinely searching his home, intercepting his communications, and con-
ducting physical surveillance in order to develop evidence of his
treachery, a process that took over eight years. The FBI arrested
Ames on 21 February 1994.ANGLETON, JAMES J. (1917–1987).James J. Angleton headed the
Counterintelligence Staff of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
from 1954 until his forced retirement by Director of Central Intel-
ligence (DCI)William E. Colby in 1974. Angleton had earlier
served in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and from late 1944
had been in charge of OSS counterintelligenceoperations in Italy.
He met and became friends with Harold (“Kim”) Philby, British6•AMES, ALDRICH05-398 (2) Dictionary.qxd 10/20/05 6:27 AM Page 6