Throughout the entire fifty year history of the Central Intelligence Agency, there have been various incidents within the "company", including the Aldrich Ames spy case, that have made the government realize that the counterintelligence of the nation must be stepped up and reformed in order to prevent another drastic wake-up call as was in the Ames case. Ever since the Central Intelligence Agency was formed by the National Security Act of 1947, it has felt close …showed first 75 words of 2355 total…

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