8-25-95. NYPaper: "C.I.A. Still in Dark on Spy's Damage." Eighteen months after the arrest of Aldrich H. Ames, Moscow's mole inside the Central Intelligence Agency, the agency has still not sounded the depths of the damage he did. The process of looking backward to reconstruct the past and understand the present -- the business of "walking back the cat," in espionage argot -- has proved immensely frustrating. Often he did not know the true names or roles of the people he betrayed. The Soviet (and later the Russian) intelligence services forced some of the men Mr. Ames betrayed to become pawns in a game of deception, using them to feed false information on some of those operations to the C.I.A. in an effort to mislead and mystify the agency. The C.I.A. became a laughing stock for the way in which it investigated itself once it knew its Soviet agents had been betrayed. 8-25-95. W$Japer: "Russia's Threat Beneath the Surface." Most elements of Russias's military arsenal are shrinking in numbers and effectiveness. Yet Russia is still completing construction of submarines begun in the Soviet era, on about the same timetable as the Soviets produced them. Recently, it laid the keel for an even more advanced submarine and will enter the next century with the largest nuclear submarine fleet in the world. That new Russian subs are so quiet is attributable in part to the skill of Russian scientists and engineers, in part to Western technology illicitly acquired, and in part to help from two convicted American spies, John Walker and Jerry Whitworth, who for many years sold U.S. secrets to the Soviet Union. Pair of Karlas: KGB_laf (14kb)