Watch The Assets Online at Couchtuner. Based on the real-life crimes of CIA mole Aldrich Ames, THE ASSETS centers on intrepid CIA agent Sandra Grimes, who’s starting to catch on that something’s going wrong in the agency’s Soviet spying program. Spies stationed in the USSR, known to the CIA as “assets,” are being arrested by the KGB at an alarming rate. Could there be a double agent in Grimes’ own office? Grimes and her partner Jeanne Vertefeuille are starting to put together the pieces. Is colleague Aldrich Ames on the Soviet payroll? It’s up to Grimes and Vertefeuille to find out.