The Polygraph Problem: Why "Sounds True" Isn't True
Aldrich Ames was not a good spy. That's the part that should keep you up at night…
For nine years, from 1985 to 1994, Ames sold America's deepest, darkest secrets to the Soviet Union. He handed over the names of at least ten people secretly working for the United States, and most of them were rounded up and shot. As simple as that.
It was, by body count, one of the worst betrayals in the history of American intelligence. And the man who pulled it off was, by every account of the people who worked next to him, a certified mess.
His own bosses thought he was mediocre, if even rising to that. One supervisor said Ames "exuded this feeling of superiority to everyone else" while sitting on what he called "a rubber rung of a career ladder." And he drank. He drank so much that at one Christmas party...
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