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Aldrich Ames, Most Damaging CIA Traitor, Dies at 84
Aldrich Ames, convicted of betraying over 30 Western agents and receiving $2.5 million from Soviet and Russian intelligence, died while serving life in a Maryland prison.
- Monday, Aldrich Ames, former CIA counterintelligence officer, died at 84 while serving a life sentence at the Federal Correctional Institution in Cumberland, Maryland after compromising more than 100 intelligence operations.
- Pressure from personal finances and his marriage led Ames to approach the Soviets in 1985, giving them names of KGB officers for $50,000, with promises of more than $2 million for cooperation.
- Ames disclosed 10 agents and gave the KGB CIA assets lists that a 1994 Senate Intelligence Committee report said dealt a crippling blow; he met handlers in Vienna, Bogota, Caracas and served in Rome.
- Investigators arrested Ames on Feb. 21, 1994, in Arlington, Virginia, and nearly two months later he and Rosario Ames pleaded guilty to espionage charges, with Rosario sentenced to five years.
- Agency reviews later noted repeated missed warnings about Ames, including failed lie detector tests and unexplained wealth, while then-CIA Director R. James Woolsey condemned him as a betrayer.
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Aldrich Ames, most damaging CIA traitor in agency history, dies at 84
Aldrich H. Ames, the CIA officer whose spying for Moscow was the most damaging breach in the agency’s history, reportedly causing the deaths of at least 10 recruited CIA or allied intelligence agents, died Jan. 5 at the Federal Correctional…
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