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Release: Jan. 20, 1995
Contact: Patricia Coen (609/258-5764)


CIA's Inspector General to Discuss Aldrich Ames
Espionage Conviction and Its Impact on the CIA


Princeton, N.J.--Frederick Hitz, inspector general for the Central
Intelligence Agency (CIA) will speak on ''The CIA After Ames'' at
Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and
International Affairs on Thursday, February 16, at 4:30 p.m. in
Bowl 2, Robertson Hall. Hitz, a member of Princeton's Class of
1961, will discuss the Ames investigation and its aftermath.

In his statement before the Permanent Select Committee on
Intelligence of the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate's
Select Committee on Intelligence in September of 1994, Hitz said,
Although the damage assessment is underway, the estimates at this
time of the damage attributable to Ames are truly staggering. ...
We now know that he provided the Soviets with information on 36
cases in June 1985. Based on his debriefings, Ames now
acknowledges providing the Soviets with information on a large
number of additional Soviet and East European cases. In addition,
Ames disclosed the identities of many agency employees and non-
official cover officers, as well as technical operations, finished
intelligence, and agency planning and policy documents.

Hitz, who holds a J.D. degree from Harvard Law School, was
appointed inspector general of the CIA by the President in 1990.
His previous government experience includes serving as a
Congressional relations officer, deputy assistant secretary of
defense for legislative affairs, a senior staff member of the
energy policy and planning staff in the Executive Office of the
President, and director of Congressional affairs at the Department
of Energy. He is the recipient of the Secretary of Defense Medal
for Outstanding Public Service and the Department of Defense's
Distinguished Civilian Service Medal. He served as legislative
counsel to the director of Central Intelligence from 1978 to 1981,
and was managing partner of the law firm of Schwabe, Williamson,
and Wyatt in Washington, D.C., from 1982 through 1990.

His talk is being sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School and
Princeton's Research Program in International Security.

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