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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.
- Aldrich Ames, a former CIA officer, has died at the age of 84.
- Ames was imprisoned on April 28, 1994, for selling secrets to the Soviet Union and later Russia.
- He admitted to receiving about $2.5 million over nine years for his betrayal of the U.S.
- CIA Director R. James Woolsey called Ames 'a malignant betrayer of his country.
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He betrayed his country for money.
Aldrich Ames, one of the most notorious agents of the USSR and then Russia, died in the United States on January 5th. He inflicted enormous damage on US and NATO intelligence networks by betraying them in exchange for money, according to RBC-Ukraine, citing The Washington Post. Ames was 84 years old at the time of his death and was in prison. For nine years, from 1985 to 1994, he worked first for the Soviet Union and, after its collapse, for Rus…
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