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Document Information
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Book page / congressional exhibit
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Summary
This document appears to be page 209 from a book (likely 'Filthy Rich' based on the ISBN fragment in the footer) included in House Oversight Committee evidence. Chapter 20, titled 'The NSA's Back Door,' discusses intelligence security failures, specifically comparing Edward Snowden's leaks to the 1994 discovery of Aldrich Ames as a KGB mole within the CIA. The text focuses on the vulnerability of US intelligence agencies to penetration.
People (2)
| Name | Role | Context |
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| Edward Snowden | Whistleblower / Source |
Quoted regarding private companies doing governmental work; mentioned regarding theft of NSA documents.
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| Aldrich Ames | CIA Officer / Russian Mole |
Described as a long-serving Russian mole in the CIA exposed in 1994; sentenced to life imprisonment.
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Organizations (7)
| Name | Type | Context |
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| NSA |
National Security Agency; subject of chapter title and Snowden's leaks.
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| CIA |
Central Intelligence Agency; employer of Aldrich Ames.
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| FBI |
Federal Bureau of Investigation; arrested Aldrich Ames.
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| KGB |
Soviet/Russian intelligence agency; handled Ames as a mole.
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| CIA's Counterintelligence Center Analysis Group |
Specific unit where Aldrich Ames worked.
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| Russian intelligence |
Entity Ames worked for.
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| House Oversight Committee |
Implied by the 'HOUSE_OVERSIGHT' stamp in the footer.
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Timeline (2 events)
2014
Locations (2)
| Location | Context |
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Location of Edward Snowden in 2014.
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Implied context of U.S. intelligence community.
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Relationships (2)
High-ranking CIA officer... mole in the CIA.
Worked there for over nine years on behalf of the KGB.
Key Quotes (1)
"You have private for-profit companies doing inherently governmental work like targeted espionage, surveillance, compromising foreign systems. And there's very little oversight, there's very little review."Source
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CHAPTER 20
The NSA's Back Door
You have private for-profit companies doing inherently governmental work like targeted espionage, surveillance, compromising foreign systems. And there's very little oversight, there's very little review.
—EDWARD SNOWDEN, MOSCOW, 2014
—EDWARD SNOWDEN, MOSCOW, 2014
PRIOR TO SNOWDEN'S THEFT of NSA documents, the single most shattering blow to the confidence of the U.S. intelligence community was the 1994 exposure of Aldrich Ames as a long-serving Russian mole in the CIA. Ames, it will be recalled, had been a high-ranking CIA officer, working at the CIA's Counterintelligence Center Analysis Group, before he was arrested by the FBI. He had also worked as a mole for Russian intelligence.
In a plea bargain to avoid a death sentence (he was sentenced to life imprisonment), he admitted that he had successfully burrowed into the CIA and had worked there for over nine years on behalf of the KGB. His description of his sub-rosa activities as a mole was part of the plea bargain. This stunning revelation shook the CIA leadership to its core. Until then, CIA executives steadfastly denied that it was possible that the KGB could sustain a mole in American intelligence. The Ames arrest also led the NSA to reassess its own vulnerability to penetration. Could there be an Ames inside the NSA?
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