>> exactly. >> sandy grimes first met aldrich ames in the early 1970s when they were both young agentssitive job, helping to manage the cia's relationship with the agency's crown jewel, a spy named general top hat, the highest ranking soviet officer ever recruited. she spent so long on his case that she felt he was her best friend. >> why did he volunteer to help us? >> the dangerous espionage work was blended with a tender home life. >> we were very close. >> his granddaughter remembers him as a doting figure. >> he was always making furniture for my dolls. >> but her relationship with her grandfather was cut brutally short when on june 13, 1985, rich ames gave a list of every known human asset the cia had in the soviet union. the list had 20 names on it. within a year, ten of those people were executed. among those rounded up, this general seen in the remarkable footage as he is arrested and stripped on the spot just in case he had a cyanide pill on him to take his own life. he was later tried in a secret court and shot. back at the cia, no one knew exactly what had gone wrong as the