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CIA turncoat Aldrich Ames, who betrayed Western intelligence assets to the Soviet Union and Russia, has died in a Maryland prison
ThePrint Explorer looks at the lives of Ames & another double-agent, Major-General Dmitri Polyakov, which offer a peek into the shadow world of espionage.
WASHINGTON (AP) — CIA turncoat Aldrich Ames, who betrayed Western intelligence assets to the Soviet Union and Russia in one of the most damaging intelligence breaches in U.S. history, has died in a Maryland prison. He was 84. A spokesperson for the ...
Aldrich Ames, a CIA counterintelligence officer who committed one of the most damaging breaches in US history by selling out nearly a dozen Soviet, Russian and other officials working for the West, died Monday at the Maryland federal prison where he was ...