Aldrich Ames - The Ultimate Double Agent, Part 2/2: Operation Nightmover | CIA
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The Black Sea Narcotics Initiative
The CIA officer who initiated the agency's mole hunt gave Wiser some advice. If you want to catch a spy, you need to think like a spy,. And in that advice, Wiser saw an opportunity. The Cold War was over. Ames had a new job. He was working on the Black Sea Narcotics Initiative. As part of the initiative, he worked to break up the global heroin trade. But there were partner countries to the initiative, and one of them was Russia. So we were somewhat concerned about that. We wanted to watch what he was doing. One of the team takes Polaroids of Ames' desk. Then, one by one, they pick up all the documents
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