Summary
Chadwick's is a smokey neighborhood saloon tucked in under the Whitehurst Freeway at the foot of Wisconsin Ave., the sort of place where everyone seems to know everyone else. The front window table provides a splendid view of a much-potholed stretch of K St. NW (which dead-ends within a few yards) and a shabby fence enclosing a parking lot. In Espionage 101, Chadwick's would rank high among places NOT to have a first meeting with someone from a rival intelligence service who is offering to sell information. Too public, no easy egress - its limitations are many.
Nonetheless, that exposed table is where CIA renegade Aldrich Ames launched his secret career of treason. He did so at a 1985 meeting with Victor Cherkashin, the head of KGB counterintelligence in Washington. The story of how Mr. Cherkashin served as the handler for Ames and another traitor, Robert Hanssen of the FBI, is ably told in Spy Handler (Victor Cherkashin with Gregory Feifer, Basic Books, $26, 338 pages, illus.).See the full content of this document
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Handling Spies, Cia Gets One Right
Both treacheries been the subject of perhaps a dozen books. Now we hear the story from the KGB side. At Chadwick's, Mr. Ames professed to be a patriotic American, but one who felt that CIA "was putting one over on Congress and the American people" by overestimating Soviet strengths. But his decis...
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