Aldrich Ames was a counterintelligence officer for the CIA who spied for the Soviet Union and later Russia.
People often describe espionage as a silent contest of minds, but real spy stories strip away glamour and reveal a world ...
The CIA knew Aldrich Ames was drinking excessively, was prone to extra-marital affairs, lived a lifestyle that was far above his pay as an intelligence officer, and even failed a lie detector test ...
Aldrich Ames, a senior CIA counterintelligence officer, died at 84 while serving a life sentence for spying for the Soviet Union and Russia.His betrayal exposed numerous CIA operations and agents ...
One of the most notorious spies in U.S. history, Aldrich Ames, died on Tuesday at the age of 84. As a CIA officer, Ames sold highly classified secrets to the Soviet Union starting in the mid 1980s.
The former counterintelligence officer, who was serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole, died Jan. 5. He was 84.