nd us that other issues must be addressed.
             These include the serious lack of adequate counterintelligence during much of the 80's and early 90's. My
             predecessors, the Attorney General and the Director of the FBI have made great progress in repairing this
             extremely important function. We have continued to make progress, but much work remains to be
             This conclusion in Deutch's statement was a display of his frustration at the entire Ames incident, but also
             a vow to look to the future for development of agency and bureau progress. Deutch recognizes the need to
             increase involvement with the FBI in CIA "mole-hunts" and in general counter-intelligence operations.
             Throughout the late 70's and early 80's the CIA began to see a decline in respect from the
             nation(Ranelagh 163), but this decline was mostly due to embellishments of bits of information of
             clandestine operations and the nation's frustration with the Cold War. The nation is now beginning to see a
             decline in the CIA due to its lack of adequate security, and it is not the nation yelling and screaming, but
             the intelligence community itself finally reflecting on the fact that there is problems that must be addressed
             before the agency can be a fully functional entity again.
             Even in 1992 analysts began to see the evidence of possible moles within the CIA(Wise 34), but
             the FBI and CIA investigation at this time was almost stagnate(Weiner 98) at this time. It still took 2 more
             years after a published, outsider account of suspicions of treachery for an arrest to be made, is that the
             counterintelligence efficiency that the United States should maintain as the most powerful nation in the
             Ames "unknowingly" signed the metaphorical death warrants of at least 9 US agents in June of
             1985, because of his lack of money, huge ego, and alcoholism(34). The warning lights didn't initially go
             off beca...