Ames

On May 11, 2005, LINTON P. HICKS of Cherry Hill. Services will be held at Ames Memorial Church, Thursday, May 19 at 2 P.M, (Baker and Carey Streets).

Two people were arrested and charged with theft Tuesday afternoon after they allegedly tried to steal $58 worth of videotapes from an Ames department store in the 8100 block of Ritchie Highway. One suspect allegedly assaulted an Ames employee while trying to escape, police said.Christine Bury, 24, of the 2100 block of Welhem St., was charged with theft and assault. A 15-year-old girl was charged as a juvenile with theft.

WASHINGTON -- The CIA first became aware that Aldrich H. Ames might be a Soviet mole nearly seven years ago but failed to focus on evidence pointing at the intelligence officer until last year, when officers finally searched his office, intelligence officials and members of Congress said yesterday.Recounting the investigation that led to Mr. Ames and his wife being charged with spying for Moscow, they said the CIA's investigation of a suspected traitor in its ranks rose and fell in intensity over the years.

WASHINGTON -- When Aldrich H. Ames first went to work at the headquarters of the CIA in 1959 a few miles from his home, it was much like a son following his father in working at the local mill.His father had been a longtime CIA employee, and as a member of the agency's extended family, "Rick" Ames had always been fascinated by the world of espionage and was expected to flourish.Instead, he was quickly marked as plodding and unimaginative, a judgment that would follow him throughout his 32-year career, which ended last week with his arrest as an agent for Moscow.

WASHINGTON -- The FBI is accusing Aldrich Hazen Ames, the CIA officer arrested on espionage charges this week, of betraying at least 10 Soviet citizens working for U.S. intelligence, government officials said yesterday. All were convicted of treason and executed in Moscow by the Soviet authorities, they said.The agents said to have been identified by Mr. Ames included the first two intelligence officers the FBI had ever recruited from the Soviet Embassy in Washington and a senior Soviet counterintelligence official in Moscow responsible for catching U.S. spies.

William L. Ames Jr., 70, postal workerWilliam L. Ames Jr., a retired postal worker and lifelong Baltimorean, died of cancer Sunday at his West Baltimore home. He was 70.He joined the U.S. Postal Service in 1951 and retired in 1983. He later worked as a courier for First National Bank of Maryland from 1986 to 1993.Mr. Ames graduated from Douglass High School in 1945 and attended then-Morgan State College.He enjoyed listening to jazz, playing cards and reading. He was a member of the National Alliance of Postal and Federal Employees, the Forest Park Senior Center and the Frederick Douglass High School Alumni Association.

Hot on the heels of Jose Canseco's controversial book on baseball and steroids, agent Doug Ames is pitching a tell-all football book by the Columbia, S.C., doctor under a federal steroids investigation. "It will shock a lot of people," Ames said yesterday from New York, where he and Dr. James Shortt have been visiting book publishers. Shortt is under investigation by state and federal authorities for prescribing steroids. CBS News reported last week that three players with the Carolina Panthers filled testosterone prescriptions issued by Shortt two weeks before they played in the February 2004 Super Bowl.

On September 29, 2007, DOLORES L. JONES; devoted mother to Angelia Ames-Poole, and Cordretta Ames. She is also survived by five grandchildren, six great-grand, four sisters, three brothers and a host of other relatives and friends. Friends may call at the family owned MARCH FUNERAL HOME WEST, INC., 4300 Wabash Avenue, on Thursday after 8:30 A.M. The family will receive friends on Friday at St. Edwards Roman Catholic Church, 901 Poplar Grove Street at 10:30 A.M. with Mass to follow at 11 A.M.

WASHINGTON -- The lawyer representing Aldrich Ames, the CIA official accused of spying for Moscow, said yesterday that Mr. Ames would fight the charges against him, raising the prospect of a messy trial that could involve secrets the agency would rather not disclose.The lawyer for Mr. Ames' wife, Maria del Rosario Casas Ames, also issued a statement denouncing the accusations in an FBI affidavit that was unsealed on Tuesday after the couple was arrested.If the case against Mr. Ames and his wife is brought to trial in open court, it would set the stage for a potentially damaging tug of war between the intelligence agency's desire to preserve security secrets and the Justice Department's need to make a case against the couple.

THE CIA has been taking a bad rap for alleged spy Aldrich Ames who was arrested for whispering U.S. secrets to the Russians. Critics of the intelligence agency maintain that the chaps out at Langley should have known Aldrich was up to no good from his lifestyle, which was far more lavish than anything a CIA counterintelligence officer could afford.One of the people assigned to investigate what went wrong was Ted Tarr. He told me, "In retrospect, there were signs that Ames was not exactly what he appeared to be. But we had to take his word that he was straight, because he had taken an oath that he would uphold the law of the land."