Aldrich Hazen Ames (May 26, 1941 – January 5, 2026) was an American CIA counterintelligence officer who was convicted of espionage on behalf of the Soviet Union and Russia in 1994. He served a life sentence, without the possibility of parole, in various federal prisons until his death in 2026 at the Federal Correctional Institution in Cumberland, Maryland. Ames was responsible for the arrest and eventual execution of numerous Soviet and Russian officials secretly working on behalf of the U.S. intelligence community, and had compromised more highly classified CIA assets than any other intelligence officer at the time of his arrest until the arrest of FBI agent Robert Hanssen seven years later in 2001. Both Ames and Hanssen were recruited by Victor Cherkashin, a high-ranking KGB officer.
Aldrich Ames
CIA analyst and Soviet spy
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American CIA analyst and Soviet spy
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Aldrich Ames, American cia analyst and soviet spy, known for american cia analyst and soviet spy, was born on 1941-05-26.
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