Agent Leslie G. “Les” Wiser, Jr. ran the FBI's Nightmover investigation tasked with uncovering a mole in the CIA.
The team worked night and day to collect evidence―sneaking into Ames' home, hiding a homing beacon in his Jaguar, and installing a video camera above his desk.
But the spy kept one step ahead, even after agents followed him to Bogota, Colombia.
In a crazy twist, the FBI would score its biggest clue from inside Ames' garbage can.
At the time of his arrest on February 21, 1994, he had compromised more highly-classified CIA assets than any other agent in history.
Go behind the scenes of some of the FBI's most interesting cases in award-winning journalist Bryan Denson's FBI Files series, featuring the investigations of the Unabomber, al-Qaeda member Mohamed Mohamud, and Michael Young's diamond theft ring.
Each book includes photographs, a glossary, a note from the author,
and other detailed backmatter on the subject of the investigation.
Reading age 8-12
176 pages.