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Aldrich Ames, Strategic Damage, and the Discipline of Counterintelligence
UNCLASSIFIED | HISTORICAL ANALYSIS | PUBLIC RELEASE Independent historical whitepaper. This document is not an official product of the Department of Defense, the Central Intelligence Agency, or any other U.S. Government organization. Executive Summary Aldrich Hazen Ames was a career CIA operations officer with extensive experience in Soviet counterintelligence. In April 1985, he volunteered his…
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Moving Beyond MICE: A Policy Review of Spy Motivation and Influence Frameworks
Executive Summary The MICE framework has long shaped how intelligence officers, counterintelligence analysts, and insider-threat teams think about human betrayal. The acronym stands for Money, Ideology, Coercion or Compromise, and Ego or Excitement. It is simple. That is part of its appeal. It is also part of its problem.