Throughout the entire fifty year history of the Central Intelligence Agency, there have been
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 the entire agency is due to the fact that false
information can be fed and agents can be executed as was evident in the Ames case.
The CIA is required by law to act as an entirely separate entity from the Federal Bureau of
Investigation(Leary 76), but this creates problems when they are needed by executive order to unite to fight
a greater threat. Throughout the Ames work, the "Feds" and the "Spooks" couldn't seem to gel as was
essential to the investigation that was conducted to find the "mole", or the lack thereof such, within the CIA
On December 7, 1995 Director of Central of Intelligence, John Deutch highlighted the following
"The Ames case--and the other espionage cases of the `80s-remi...