The CIA, Shirley argued, is overrun with underqualified, unmotivated agents who have learned how to get ahead in an organization plagued by bureaucratic inertia. Shirley, the pseudonym of a former CIA officer, explained that the 1994 discovery of CIA agent Aldrich Ames as a double agent for the KGB came to him as no surprise-and should, in fact, serve as a wake-up call for reform-given how 'dysfunctional' the CIA had by then become. In 'Can't Anybody Here Play This Game' (February 1998), Edward G.

In the aftermath of various spy incidents Atlantic contributors have joined in the collective speculation about what exactly took place and why. How could the nation's most sophisticated domestic intelligence-gathering organization have missed the fact that one of its own had been selling high-level secrets to the Russians for the past fifteen years? Renegade intelligence officers are not a new phenomenon, of course. In 2001, his unveiling as a double agent for the Soviets caused consternation within the FBI and beyond.

A new movie, Breach, tells the story of renegade FBI agent Robert Philip Hanssen.

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