various incidents within the "company", including the Aldrich Ames spy case, that have made the

government realize that the counterintelligence of the nation must be stepped up and reformed in order to

prevent another drastic wake-up call as was in the Ames case. Ever since the Central Intelligence Agency

was formed by the National Security Act of 1947, it has felt close to immune to the threats of internal

espionage that faced the then Soviet Union. The Ames case told the government to stop, look around and

make some changes, in some cases very monumental changes were recommended. How can the nation

deal with the threat of espionage, even in this post-Cold War time; that remains to be seen, but could be

Counter-intelligence and security are the two greatest necessities within the Intelligence

community. The Directorate of Intelligence, the division of the CIA which controls the actual gathering of

intelligence, is one of the two directorates that must have the utmost security(Agee 23) within the company.

If the intelligence gathering secrets are compromised then th

This conclusion in Deutch's statement was a display of his frustration at the entire Ames incident, but also

Russian that was his KGB contact, he was instead the Simeon who opened the door that allowed the Soviet

and forget to close his safe and in turn he left stacks of classified cables strewn throughout the office(134).

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