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Sandra Grimes

January 01, 1970

Sandra Grimes is a former CIA officer who participated in a small team that investigated and uncovered the actions of Aldrich Ames,[1] a United States counterintelligence officer who was subsequently convicted of spying for the Soviet Union.

Sandra Grimes
Sandra Grimes at the International Spy Museum, on July 22, 2016
BornAugust 1945 (age 78)
OccupationFormer CIA operative (1966–1993)

Early life edit

Grimes was born in August 1945 to a couple who met in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and worked together on the Manhattan Project.[2] She went to school in Los Alamos, then left and did the rest of her schooling in Denver, Colorado.[2] While in high school she enrolled in a course in Russian, in which she excelled and gave her the encouragement to later major in Russian language at the University of Washington in Seattle.[2]

CIA career and Aldrich Ames edit

 
The Central Intelligence Agency team that discovered Soviet mole Aldrich Ames. From left to right: Sandy Grimes, Paul Redmond, Jeanne Vertefeuille, Diana Worthen, Dan Payne.

In October 1966, a friend informed Grimes that a CIA recruiter was on campus,[2] and told her she "would make a perfect spy."[3] She subsequently interviewed with the CIA, and was hired as a GS-06 Intelligence Assistant, a job classification which required that she obtain security and medical clearances before being granted unrestricted access to the potentially sensitive documentation she would be seeing.[3] When she reported for duty at the Ames building in Rosslyn, Virginia, she and her fellow co-workers became clerical employees.[3]

Grimes' first job was working in the Soviet Bloc Division of the Directorate of Operations,[4] which included the intelligence from then Colonel Dmitri Fedorovich Polyakov. She trained herself to become familiar with Soviet intelligence services, during which she used index cards to track counterintelligence and positive intelligence.[4]

In Fall 1968, Grimes attended operations training and met SE Division expert Dick Kovich.[5] In 1970, she eventually was granted an interview for conversion to professional status[5] and afterward worked her way up and was given the duty of replacing a senior intelligence analyst in the Branch.[6] She later became a Soviet and Eastern European Division officer and remained with their counterintelligence group for eleven years, holding various titles and positions.[7] It was through this experience that she gained knowledge of the KGB and the GRU.[7][8] During this time. Grimes worked or assisted in cases which included Aleksey Isidorovich Kulak and Leonid Georgiyevich Poleshchuk.[7]

In the late 1970s, through an organizational change in the CI group, she met Jeanne Vertefeuille.[9] Grimes and McCoy made a proposal to create two branches in the CI group, both of which to handle CI dissemination and production in a specific geographical region.[10] One would deal with the Soviet bloc and the other the Eastern European bloc. Eventually, the two branches merged, where Vertefeuille was the chief and Grimes became the Soviet section chief.[10]

In 1981, after 14 years in CI, Grimes moved to the Career Management Staff after a change in feelings.[11]

In early 1983, she eventually moved on to becoming deputy chief of external operations in Africa and two weeks later became acting chief.[12] In early 1984, Grimes was appointed permanent Chief of SE External Operations for Africa.[12]

After the arrest of then General Poleshchuk on October 2, 1985, in January 1986, Grimes was part of the attempt to stop CIA assets from being exposed, which was an extraordinary "back room" security procedure.[11] This role was in addition to Grimes' role of Chief of SE External Operations for Africa.[11]

She was eventually brought into a CIA operation in Bonn. An anonymous write-in, involving a person named Mister. X, mentioned that the Soviet sources of the CIA were compromised due to a penetration of the CIA communications.[13] The author demanded $50,000 in a cache or dead drop in East Berlin. In March 1987, Grimes was transferred from her position in Africa and was assigned to the Moscow Task Force.[13] Moscow Embassy Marine Guard Arnold Bracy and Clayton Lonetree allowed the KGB entry to the secure areas within the U.S. Embassy.[14]

In 1989, Grimes moved from being Chief of the Production Branch to a part-time position in the Special Projects Section.[15] In early 1991, she was working on GTPROLOGUE when she was offered the assignment to investigate the 1985 loss of Polyakov and others.[15]

During a joint mole-hunt, Grimes was a member of the team who made the first breakthrough in 1992.[16] She correlated times that Ames met with Sergey Dmitriyevich Chuvakhin, his KGB contact, with times that he made large bank deposits in 1985 and 1986.[8]

In early 1993, Grimes resigned from the CIA.[17]

Legacy edit

In 2012, Circle of Treason: A CIA Account of Traitor Aldrich Ames and the Men He Betrayed, a book co-authored by Grimes and Vertefeuille, was published by the Naval Institute Press.[18] Vertefeuille subsequently died from brain cancer at the age of 80 on 29 December of that same year.[19] According to Peter Earnest, executive director (emeritus) of the International Spy Museum in Washington, DC, Vertefeuille's "friend, in her final days, was, of course, Sandy Grimes. They had been friends for years, very close friends, and very close teammates."[20]

In 2014, ABC aired The Assets, an eight-part American drama television miniseries based on Circle of Treason.[21]

References edit

  1. ^ “Circle of Treason: A CIA Account of Traitor Aldrich Ames and the Men He Betrayed”, The Washington Post, 1 December 2012
  2. ^ a b c d Grimes, Sandra; Vertefeuille, Jeanne (2012). Circle of treason : a CIA account of traitor Aldrich Ames and the men he betrayed. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. p. 10. ISBN 9781612513058. OCLC 824081739.
  3. ^ a b c Grimes, Sandra; Vertefeuille, Jeanne (2012). Circle of treason : a CIA account of traitor Aldrich Ames and the men he betrayed. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. pp. 10–11. ISBN 9781612513058. OCLC 824081739.
  4. ^ a b Grimes, Sandra; Vertefeuille, Jeanne (2012). Circle of treason : a CIA account of traitor Aldrich Ames and the men he betrayed. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. p. 12. ISBN 9781612513058. OCLC 824081739.
  5. ^ a b Grimes, Sandra; Vertefeuille, Jeanne (2012). Circle of treason : a CIA account of traitor Aldrich Ames and the men he betrayed. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. pp. 13–14. ISBN 9781612513058. OCLC 824081739.
  6. ^ Grimes, Sandra; Vertefeuille, Jeanne (2012). Circle of treason : a CIA account of traitor Aldrich Ames and the men he betrayed. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. p. 12–13. ISBN 9781612513058. OCLC 824081739.
  7. ^ a b c Grimes, Sandra; Vertefeuille, Jeanne (2012). Circle of treason : a CIA account of traitor Aldrich Ames and the men he betrayed. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. p. 14. ISBN 9781612513058. OCLC 824081739.
  8. ^ a b Wise, David (1995). Nightmover: How Aldrich Ames Sold the CIA to the KGB for $4.6 Million. Harper Collins. ISBN 0-06-017198-7.
  9. ^ MARTIN, DOUGLAS (January 11, 2013). "Jeanne Vertefeuille, C.I.A. Official Who Helped Catch a Notorious Mole, Dies at 80". New York Times. Retrieved 25 July 2016.
  10. ^ a b Grimes, Sandra; Vertefeuille, Jeanne (2012). Circle of treason : a CIA account of traitor Aldrich Ames and the men he betrayed. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. p. 15. ISBN 9781612513058. OCLC 824081739.
  11. ^ a b c Grimes, Sandra; Vertefeuille, Jeanne (2012). Circle of treason : a CIA account of traitor Aldrich Ames and the men he betrayed. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 9781612513058. OCLC 824081739.
  12. ^ a b Grimes, Sandra; Vertefeuille, Jeanne (2012). Circle of treason : a CIA account of traitor Aldrich Ames and the men he betrayed. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. p. 17. ISBN 9781612513058. OCLC 824081739.
  13. ^ a b Grimes, Sandra; Vertefeuille, Jeanne (2012). Circle of treason : a CIA account of traitor Aldrich Ames and the men he betrayed. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. p. 18. ISBN 9781612513058. OCLC 824081739.
  14. ^ Grimes, Sandra; Vertefeuille, Jeanne (2012). Circle of treason : a CIA account of traitor Aldrich Ames and the men he betrayed. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. pp. 17–18. ISBN 9781612513058. OCLC 824081739.
  15. ^ a b Grimes, Sandra; Vertefeuille, Jeanne (2012). Circle of treason : a CIA account of traitor Aldrich Ames and the men he betrayed. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. p. 19. ISBN 9781612513058. OCLC 824081739.
  16. ^ . CIA.gov. CIA. Mar 12, 2009. Archived from the original on April 17, 2009. Retrieved 4 November 2013.
  17. ^ Grimes, Sandra (2012). Circle of Treason. Naval Institute Press. p. 19. ISBN 9781591143345.
  18. ^ Sandra, Grimes; Vertefeuille, Jeanne (2012). Circle of treason : a CIA account of traitor Aldrich Ames and the men he betrayed. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. p. 6. ISBN 9781612513058. OCLC 824081739.
  19. ^ Martin, Douglas (11 January 2013). "Jeanne Vertefeuille, C.I.A. Official Who Helped Catch a Notorious Mole, Dies at 80". New York Times. Retrieved 26 October 2013.
  20. ^ "Spy Hunters - The Women Who Caught Aldrich Ames" (video). Washington, DC: International Spy Museum, September 18, 2013.
  21. ^ Lacey Rose (2013-07-23). "ABC Orders Limited Series About The Cold War". Hollywoodreporter.com. Retrieved 2013-09-08.

Further reading edit

  • Sandra Grimes and Jeanne Vertefeuille. Circle of Treason: A CIA Account of Traitor Aldrich Ames and the Men He Betrayed. Annapolis, Md: Naval Institute Press, 2012. ISBN 9781591143345 OCLC 785079499

External links edit

  • Grimes discusses Circle of Treason at the Pritzker Military Museum & Library on December 12, 2013
  • "Mother, Daughter, Sister, Spy" (video of panel discussion about women in the intelligence community). Washington, DC: International Spy Museum, January 6, 2017.
  • Appearances on C-SPAN

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Sandra Grimes is a former CIA officer who participated in a small team that investigated and uncovered the actions of Aldrich Ames 1 a United States counterintelligence officer who was subsequently convicted of spying for the Soviet Union Sandra GrimesSandra Grimes at the International Spy Museum on July 22 2016BornAugust 1945 age 78 OccupationFormer CIA operative 1966 1993 Contents 1 Early life 2 CIA career and Aldrich Ames 3 Legacy 4 References 5 Further reading 6 External linksEarly life editGrimes was born in August 1945 to a couple who met in Oak Ridge Tennessee and worked together on the Manhattan Project 2 She went to school in Los Alamos then left and did the rest of her schooling in Denver Colorado 2 While in high school she enrolled in a course in Russian in which she excelled and gave her the encouragement to later major in Russian language at the University of Washington in Seattle 2 CIA career and Aldrich Ames edit nbsp The Central Intelligence Agency team that discovered Soviet mole Aldrich Ames From left to right Sandy Grimes Paul Redmond Jeanne Vertefeuille Diana Worthen Dan Payne In October 1966 a friend informed Grimes that a CIA recruiter was on campus 2 and told her she would make a perfect spy 3 She subsequently interviewed with the CIA and was hired as a GS 06 Intelligence Assistant a job classification which required that she obtain security and medical clearances before being granted unrestricted access to the potentially sensitive documentation she would be seeing 3 When she reported for duty at the Ames building in Rosslyn Virginia she and her fellow co workers became clerical employees 3 Grimes first job was working in the Soviet Bloc Division of the Directorate of Operations 4 which included the intelligence from then Colonel Dmitri Fedorovich Polyakov She trained herself to become familiar with Soviet intelligence services during which she used index cards to track counterintelligence and positive intelligence 4 In Fall 1968 Grimes attended operations training and met SE Division expert Dick Kovich 5 In 1970 she eventually was granted an interview for conversion to professional status 5 and afterward worked her way up and was given the duty of replacing a senior intelligence analyst in the Branch 6 She later became a Soviet and Eastern European Division officer and remained with their counterintelligence group for eleven years holding various titles and positions 7 It was through this experience that she gained knowledge of the KGB and the GRU 7 8 During this time Grimes worked or assisted in cases which included Aleksey Isidorovich Kulak and Leonid Georgiyevich Poleshchuk 7 In the late 1970s through an organizational change in the CI group she met Jeanne Vertefeuille 9 Grimes and McCoy made a proposal to create two branches in the CI group both of which to handle CI dissemination and production in a specific geographical region 10 One would deal with the Soviet bloc and the other the Eastern European bloc Eventually the two branches merged where Vertefeuille was the chief and Grimes became the Soviet section chief 10 In 1981 after 14 years in CI Grimes moved to the Career Management Staff after a change in feelings 11 In early 1983 she eventually moved on to becoming deputy chief of external operations in Africa and two weeks later became acting chief 12 In early 1984 Grimes was appointed permanent Chief of SE External Operations for Africa 12 After the arrest of then General Poleshchuk on October 2 1985 in January 1986 Grimes was part of the attempt to stop CIA assets from being exposed which was an extraordinary back room security procedure 11 This role was in addition to Grimes role of Chief of SE External Operations for Africa 11 She was eventually brought into a CIA operation in Bonn An anonymous write in involving a person named Mister X mentioned that the Soviet sources of the CIA were compromised due to a penetration of the CIA communications 13 The author demanded 50 000 in a cache or dead drop in East Berlin In March 1987 Grimes was transferred from her position in Africa and was assigned to the Moscow Task Force 13 Moscow Embassy Marine Guard Arnold Bracy and Clayton Lonetree allowed the KGB entry to the secure areas within the U S Embassy 14 In 1989 Grimes moved from being Chief of the Production Branch to a part time position in the Special Projects Section 15 In early 1991 she was working on GTPROLOGUE when she was offered the assignment to investigate the 1985 loss of Polyakov and others 15 During a joint mole hunt Grimes was a member of the team who made the first breakthrough in 1992 16 She correlated times that Ames met with Sergey Dmitriyevich Chuvakhin his KGB contact with times that he made large bank deposits in 1985 and 1986 8 In early 1993 Grimes resigned from the CIA 17 Legacy editIn 2012 Circle of Treason A CIA Account of Traitor Aldrich Ames and the Men He Betrayed a book co authored by Grimes and Vertefeuille was published by the Naval Institute Press 18 Vertefeuille subsequently died from brain cancer at the age of 80 on 29 December of that same year 19 According to Peter Earnest executive director emeritus of the International Spy Museum in Washington DC Vertefeuille s friend in her final days was of course Sandy Grimes They had been friends for years very close friends and very close teammates 20 In 2014 ABC aired The Assets an eight part American drama television miniseries based on Circle of Treason 21 References edit Circle of Treason A CIA Account of Traitor Aldrich Ames and the Men He Betrayed The Washington Post 1 December 2012 a b c d Grimes Sandra Vertefeuille Jeanne 2012 Circle of treason a CIA account of traitor Aldrich Ames and the men he betrayed Annapolis Maryland Naval Institute Press p 10 ISBN 9781612513058 OCLC 824081739 a b c Grimes Sandra Vertefeuille Jeanne 2012 Circle of treason a CIA account of traitor Aldrich Ames and the men he betrayed Annapolis Maryland Naval Institute Press pp 10 11 ISBN 9781612513058 OCLC 824081739 a b Grimes Sandra Vertefeuille Jeanne 2012 Circle of treason a CIA account of traitor Aldrich Ames and the men he betrayed Annapolis Maryland Naval Institute Press p 12 ISBN 9781612513058 OCLC 824081739 a b Grimes Sandra Vertefeuille Jeanne 2012 Circle of treason a CIA account of traitor Aldrich Ames and the men he betrayed Annapolis Maryland Naval Institute Press pp 13 14 ISBN 9781612513058 OCLC 824081739 Grimes Sandra Vertefeuille Jeanne 2012 Circle of treason a CIA account of traitor Aldrich Ames and the men he betrayed Annapolis Maryland Naval Institute Press p 12 13 ISBN 9781612513058 OCLC 824081739 a b c Grimes Sandra Vertefeuille Jeanne 2012 Circle of treason a CIA account of traitor Aldrich Ames and the men he betrayed Annapolis Maryland Naval Institute Press p 14 ISBN 9781612513058 OCLC 824081739 a b Wise David 1995 Nightmover How Aldrich Ames Sold the CIA to the KGB for 4 6 Million Harper Collins ISBN 0 06 017198 7 MARTIN DOUGLAS January 11 2013 Jeanne Vertefeuille C I A Official Who Helped Catch a Notorious Mole Dies at 80 New York Times Retrieved 25 July 2016 a b Grimes Sandra Vertefeuille Jeanne 2012 Circle of treason a CIA account of traitor Aldrich Ames and the men he betrayed Annapolis Maryland Naval Institute Press p 15 ISBN 9781612513058 OCLC 824081739 a b c Grimes Sandra Vertefeuille Jeanne 2012 Circle of treason a CIA account of traitor Aldrich Ames and the men he betrayed Annapolis Maryland Naval Institute Press ISBN 9781612513058 OCLC 824081739 a b Grimes Sandra Vertefeuille Jeanne 2012 Circle of treason a CIA account of traitor Aldrich Ames and the men he betrayed Annapolis Maryland Naval Institute Press p 17 ISBN 9781612513058 OCLC 824081739 a b Grimes Sandra Vertefeuille Jeanne 2012 Circle of treason a CIA account of traitor Aldrich Ames and the men he betrayed Annapolis Maryland Naval Institute Press p 18 ISBN 9781612513058 OCLC 824081739 Grimes Sandra Vertefeuille Jeanne 2012 Circle of treason a CIA account of traitor Aldrich Ames and the men he betrayed Annapolis Maryland Naval Institute Press pp 17 18 ISBN 9781612513058 OCLC 824081739 a b Grimes Sandra Vertefeuille Jeanne 2012 Circle of treason a CIA account of traitor Aldrich Ames and the men he betrayed Annapolis Maryland Naval Institute Press p 19 ISBN 9781612513058 OCLC 824081739 The People of the CIA Ames Mole Hunt Team CIA gov CIA Mar 12 2009 Archived from the original on April 17 2009 Retrieved 4 November 2013 Grimes Sandra 2012 Circle of Treason Naval Institute Press p 19 ISBN 9781591143345 Sandra Grimes Vertefeuille Jeanne 2012 Circle of treason a CIA account of traitor Aldrich Ames and the men he betrayed Annapolis Maryland Naval Institute Press p 6 ISBN 9781612513058 OCLC 824081739 Martin Douglas 11 January 2013 Jeanne Vertefeuille C I A Official Who Helped Catch a Notorious Mole Dies at 80 New York Times Retrieved 26 October 2013 Spy Hunters The Women Who Caught Aldrich Ames video Washington DC International Spy Museum September 18 2013 Lacey Rose 2013 07 23 ABC Orders Limited Series About The Cold War Hollywoodreporter com Retrieved 2013 09 08 Further reading editSandra Grimes and Jeanne Vertefeuille Circle of Treason A CIA Account of Traitor Aldrich Ames and the Men He Betrayed Annapolis Md Naval Institute Press 2012 ISBN 9781591143345 OCLC 785079499External links editGrimes discusses Circle of Treason at the Pritzker Military Museum amp Library on December 12 2013 Mother Daughter Sister Spy video of panel discussion about women in the intelligence community Washington DC International Spy Museum January 6 2017 Appearances on C SPAN Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Sandra Grimes amp oldid 1167122603, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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