BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Microsoft Corporation//Outlook 14.0 MIMEDIR//EN VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH X-MS-OLK-FORCEINSPECTOROPEN:TRUE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Eastern Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:16011104T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=11 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:16010311T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYMONTH=3 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20170411T183156Z DESCRIPTION:JHU/APL Colloquium - www.jhuapl.edu/colloquium\n\nTOPIC: Circl e of Treason: A CIA Account of the Traitor Aldrich Ames and the Men he Bet rayed\n\nSPEAKER: Sandy Grimes\, CIA (Ret.)\n\nFrom May through December 1985 the CIA experienced the unparalleled loss of its stable of Soviet ass ets. There was no indication of the impending disaster\, which all but wip ed out human source reporting on the Soviet Union. Whatever the nature of the problem\, something was seriously wrong. Circle of Treason is the stor y of Sandra Grimes’ and Jeanne Vertefeuille’s personal involvement in the CIA’s effort to identify the reason for the losses and to protect fu ture Soviet assets from a similar fate of execution or imprisonment. In 19 91 the quest led to their hunt for a Soviet spy in the CIA and to their id entification of the “mole” as case officer Aldrich “Rick” Ames\, a long-time acquaintance and coworker in the Soviet-East European Division and Counterintelligence Center of CIA. That identification allowed the FBI to take the necessary law enforcement steps that led to Ames’ arrest in February 1994 and\, two months later\, a conviction and life sentence. On e of the most destructive traitors in American history\, Ames provided inf ormation to the Soviet Union that led to the deaths of at least eight Sovi et intelligence officers who spied for the United States.\n\nNot only is t his the first book to be written by two of the CIA principals involved in identifying Ames as the mole\, but it is also the first to provide details of the operational contact with the agents Ames betrayed\, as well as sim ilar cases with which the authors also had personal involvement — a tota l of sixteen operational histories in all. Of particular note is GRU Gener al Dmitriy Fedorovich Polyakov\, the highest-ranking spy run by the U.S. g overnment during the Cold War. Described as the “Crown Jewel\,” Polyak ov provided the United States with a trove of information during his twent y-plus-year history of cooperation. The book also covers the aftermath of Ames’ arrest\, including the congressional wrath for not identifying him sooner\, the FBI/CIA debriefings following Ames’ plea bargain\, and a r etrospective of Ames the person and Ames the spy. Now retired from the CIA \, Grimes and Vertefeuille are finally able to tell this inside story of t he CIA’s most notorious traitor and the men he betrayed.\n\nSandy Grimes is a 26-year veteran of CIA\, who worked against the former Soviet Union\ , supporting some of CIA’s most valuable cases – penetrations of the K GB and GRU. In 1991 she participated in the hunt for a mole in CIA and the identification of the individual as CIA case officer Aldrich Ames. She is co-author of the book Circle of Treason which details that search and the men he betrayed. It is also the basis for an ABC News mini-series “The Assets” which aired in 2014.\n\nThe daughter of parents who worked on t he Manhattan Project\, Sandy spent her formative years in Denver\, Colorad o\, where she substituted a course in Russian for the dreaded junior of ph ysics that set the direction of her personal and professional life. She ho lds a BA in Russian from the University of Washington\, Seattle. A mother of two daughters\, grandmother of four\, she and her husband of 48-years l ive in Great Falls\, Virginia.\n DTEND;TZID="Eastern Standard Time":20170609T150000 DTSTAMP:20170411T183156Z DTSTART;TZID="Eastern Standard Time":20170609T140000 LAST-MODIFIED:20170411T183156Z LOCATION:Parsons Auditorium PRIORITY:5 SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY;LANGUAGE=en-us:Colloquium - Sandy Grimes - CIA (Ret.) TRANSP:OPAQUE UID:040000008200E00074C5B7101A82E008000000004084C406C0AAD101000000000000000 01000000033B7C60A10B3D447AFB4D80FAA250388 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\n\n
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\n\nTOPIC:  \; Circle of Treason: FONT> A CIA Account of the Tra itor Aldrich Ames and the Men he Betrayed
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Not only is this the fir st book to be written by two of the CIA principals involved in identifying Ames as the mole\, but it is also the first to provide details of the ope rational contact with the agents Ames betrayed\, as well as similar cases with which the authors also had personal involvement — FONT> a total of sixteen operational histories in a ll. Of particular note is GRU General Dmitriy Fedorovich Polyakov\, the hi ghest-ranking spy run by the U.S. government during the Cold War. Describe d as the “Crown Jewel\,” Polyakov provided the United States with a tr ove of information during his twenty-plus-year history of cooperation. The book also covers the aftermath of Ames’ arrest\, including the congress ional wrath for not identifying him sooner\, the FBI/CIA debriefings follo wing Ames’ plea bargain\, and a retrospective of Ames the person and Ame s the spy. Now retired from the CIA\, Grimes and Vertefeuille are finally able to tell this inside story of the CIA’s most notorious traitor and t he men he betrayed.
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Sandy Grimes is a 26-year veteran of CIA\, who worked a gainst the former Soviet Union\, supporting some of CIA’s most valuable cases – penetrations of the KGB and GRU. In 1991 she participated in the hunt for a mole in CIA and the identification of the individual as CIA ca se officer Aldrich Ames. She is co-author of the book Circle of Treason which details that search and the men he betrayed. \; It is also the basis for an ABC News mini-series “The Assets” which aired in 2014. SPAN>
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The daughter of parents who worked on the Manhattan Project\, S
andy spent her formative years in Denver\, Colorado\, where she substitute
d a course in Russian for the dreaded junior of physics that set the direc
tion of her personal and professional life. She holds a BA in Russian from
the University of Washington\, Seattle. A mother of two daughters\, grand
mother of four\, she and her husband of 48-years live in Great Falls\, Vir
ginia.