Aldrich Ames’s Sources Died, Masih Alinejad Was Hunted. An Ex-FBI Behavior Chief Says Why
At least ten CIA and FBI intelligence sources were exposed and executed because of what Aldrich Ames gave the KGB, according to a Justice Department review. I ask retired FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke why sources like that become targets, and why Iran’s government, according to the Justice Department, went after journalist Masih Alinejad in New York.
Ames, a CIA officer who spied for Moscow, was sentenced to life in prison. Carlisle Rivera got fifteen years for his role in the murder-for-hire plot against Alinejad, and Jonathan Loadholt got ten. Prosecutors say Farhad Shakeri offered Rivera $100,000 to find and kill her, and Shakeri is still at large.
Robin, former chief of the FBI’s Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program, talks about who else ends up in danger when names get passed along, including families with no part in the spying, and how a spy talks himself into believing he’s only passing along information.
Both cases are separate from the Nvidia spy affair. I ask Robin whether anything reported in that case points to a physical threat or whether that would be jumping ahead of the facts, and what it’s like to be the agent a source trusts with his family’s safety.
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