> Looking for the birth date and education background for spy Aldrich
Hazen Ames. What languages he spoke. Nicknames <
I located the following information in an extremely detailed fifty
page congressional document titled ?An Assessment of the Aldrich H.
Ames Espionage Case and Its Implications for U.S. Intelligence?
Aldrich Hazen Ames was born on May 26, 1941 in Wisconsin. The nickname
cited in this document for Aldrich Hazen Ames is Rick.
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Education
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- McLean (Virginia) High School
- University of Chicago 1959 and 1960, where he pursued a long time
passion for drama, and where he intended to study foreign cultures and
history.
- George Washington University on both a part time and full time basis
from 1962-1967. He graduated with a B minus average and a bachelors'
degree in history.
- Career Trainee Program at the CIA in 1967
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Languages
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Russian - In 1973 Aldrich Hazen ("Rick") Ames was given Russian language training.
Italian - In October 1985, Ames begins full-time language training for
a new assignment in Rome.
Spanish
We can assume thathe is familiar with the Spanish language as in 1982
to 1983 he was on assignment in Mexico. He later married Maria del
Rosario Casas Dupuy, the cultural attaché at the Colombian Embassy in
Mexico City who he met while in Mexico.
Here are relevant excerpts from the document:
A. Ames's Professional and Personal Life Prior to his Espionage Activities
1. 1941 to 1969
?Aldrich Hazen ("Rick") Ames was born in River Falls, Wisconsin on May
26, 1941, to Carleton Cecil Ames and Rachel Aldrich Ames. Aldrich Ames
was the oldest of three children and the only son.?
(..)
?In 1957, after his sophomore year at McLean (Virginia) High School,
Rick Ames secured a summer job at the CIA as a General Schedule (GS)-3
on the federal government salary scale. (The federal government GS
scale is a matrix of standard salaries from the lowest, GS-1, to the
highest, GS-15). He served as a Records Analyst, where he marked
classified documents for filing. He returned to the same job each
summer through 1959.?
?After graduating from high school, Ames entered the University of
Chicago in the fall of 1959, where he pursued a long time passion for
drama, and where he intended to study foreign cultures and history. In
the summer of 1960, he again obtained employment at the CIA, working
as a laborer/painter at a facility in Virginia. He returned to the
University of Chicago in the fall of 1960, but because of failing
grades resulting from his devotion to the theater, he did not finish
out the school year. Instead, he worked as an assistant technical
director at a Chicago theater until February 1962, when he returned to
the Washington, D.C. area and obtained full time employment at the CIA
as a GS-4 clerk typist. At this time he performed essentially the same
type of clerical duties he had performed during his summers in high
school.?
(..)
?Ames remained a document analyst at the Agency within the Directorate
of Operations (DO) for the next five years while attending George
Washington University on both a part time and full time basis. In
September 1967, he graduated with a B minus average and a bachelors'
degree in history.?
(..)
?According to the IG report, Ames originally viewed his work as a
records analyst as a stopgap measure to finance his way through
college. Once he obtained his diploma, however, Ames applied and was
accepted into the Career Trainee Program at the CIA in 1967. During
this training, the CIA taught Ames the skills necessary for CIA
officers to recruit and manage agents those individuals who provide
the CIA with information or other forms of assistance. Such officers
are known within the CIA as "operations officers" or "case officers."
(..)
?During this period, Ames met his first wife, also a participant in
the CIA's Career Trainee Program. They were married in May of 1969.?
(..)
?In 1972, Ames returned to CIA headquarters where he spent the next 4
years in the Soviet-East European (SE) Division of the DO. In 1973, he
was given Russian language training, and thereafter was assigned to a
position where he supported CIA operations against Soviet officials in
the U.S.?
?Ames accepted an assignment in September 1981 for Mexico.?
?On April 17, 1984, Ames notified the CIA of his intention to marry Rosario.?
?On September 19, 1984, Ames's wife filed for divorce on grounds of
mental cruelty. Divorce proceedings began the following month and
lasted into the next year.?
(..)
?In October 1985, Ames left the debriefing effort to begin full-time
language training for a new assignment in Rome. During this training,
as previously noted, Ames continued to meet with Soviet Embassy
official Chuvakhin. Ames had requested assignment in Rome in 1984, but
this request was not approved until July 1985, after Ames had begun
his espionage activities.?
http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/1994_rpt/ssci_ames.htm
The Crime Library also provides a detailed account of the life of
Aldrich Hazen Ames. There are photographs as well.
http://www.crimelibrary.com/terrorists_spies/spies/ames/2.html?sect=23
?Aldrich Hazen Ames was born in 1941 in a small town in Wisconsin.
His father served in the Central Intelligence Agency and was removed
due to a dispute with his managers. The young Aldrich followed in his
father's footsteps and began to work at the Intelligence Agency when
he was 21. In 1985 he reached a senior standing as head of the
counter-espionage branch of the Agency, the man responsible for the
war against penetration attempts by the Russians into the intelligence
Agency.?
http://searchlight.iwarp.com/articles/maariv_081200.html
According to the following article Ricky or Rick was also Aldrich
Hazen Ames nickname.
?The creation of Aldrich Hazen "Ricky" Ames, double agent, began many
years earlier in the small town of River Falls, Wisconsin, near the
Minnesota border. River Falls was a farming town of no more than 3,500
people in the 1940's. Then as now, most of the residents either worked
in Minneapolis or St. Paul, only thirty miles distant, or labored long
days on dairy farms.?
Education:
?Aldrich Ames was a bright student a McLean High School, considered to
be witty, and a smooth orator on the debating team. He was also
thought to be a good writer. Upon graduation, Aldrich attended George
Washington University, majoring in history, as had his father. Before
receiving his degree, Aldrich got a job with the CIA in 1959, one
arranged by his father. At the age of twenty-one, he became one of the
youngest agents ever to work for the CIA. He was thought of as a
"glorified office boy," who went to college part-time while working at
the Agency. Ames finally got his degree in 1967.?
Aldrich Hazen Ames
AKA: Rick, U.S. Spy for the Soviet Union
http://www.angelfire.com/oz/1spy/Ames.html
This is a description of Aldrich Ames as person.
http://rf-web.tamu.edu/security/secguide/Spystory/Ames.htm
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