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Funny you should mention Aldrich Ames. The New York Times reported that: > Three years later, at the start of his career as a Russian mole, Aldrich Ames passed a Central Intelligence Agency lie detector test. In 1991, he passed another, even though he was on the agency's list of suspected moles and living at a level far above his $70,000 Government salary. Last summer, Dennis DeConcini, then chairman of the Senate In…
Interesting, thanks. Why was Ames given a pass on the other signs of risk? Because of his credentials?
It's been a few years since I've read a book on Ames, but as far as I recall he had some plausible deniability - he claimed the money came from his father in law.
But if I recall correctly, he was also surprised it took so long.