晨钟武侠小说:职业间谍埃姆斯和维克多•切尔卡辛的英文写法

埃姆斯(Aldrich Ames ):
　　Aldrich Ames was a CIA employee for 31 years, mainly in the Directorate of Operations. He volunteered his services to the KGB in 1985. During the following nine years until his arrest in February 1994, Ames compromised over 100 intelligence operations against the Soviet Union and passed several thousand classified documents to the KGB and its successor organization, the Russian SVR. His betrayal led to the execution of 10 Soviet officials working for CIA. 1

　　In several different assignments, Ames' duties involved regular meetings with Soviet officials. As a long-time counterintelligence specialist, he was familiar with KGB personnel and methods of operation, and with CIA penetrations of the KGB and Soviet military intelligence, the GRU.

　　In response to financial pressures following his divorce and remarriage, Ames claims he conceived a scam in which he would pass the KGB worthless information in return for a one-time payment of $50,000. He gave them information on two Soviets who had volunteered to work for CIA and whom Ames knew, through a CIA agent within the KGB, were actually planted agents controlled by the KGB. Thus the material Ames passed to the KGB confirmed Ames' access to extremely sensitive information but caused little damage to CIA.

　　Shortly after receiving the $50,000, Ames voluntarily decided to continue the contact, and to immediately pass the KGB information on all of CIA's most important Soviet operations. Ames claims inability to reconstruct the thinking that transformed the one-time scam into long-term betrayal. He explained only that he was under considerable personal and professional stress at the time.

　　In his work performance as well as his performance as a spy, Ames illustrates many of the undesirable character traits associated with betrayal -- especially grandiosity, impulsiveness, and self-centeredness.

　　This account describes Ames as a person. Readers should keep two things in mind. First, no effort is made to present a balanced picture of Ames. It focuses entirely on the negative, with no discussion of those qualities that caused some supervisors to rate Ames as a valuable employee. Second, while each piece of derogatory information was known to someone, no one person had the total picture that is now available in retrospect. This is a common finding in the retrospective evaluation of persons arrested for espionage.