Notorious CIA Spy Aldrich Ames Dies in Prison — The Traitor Who Cost America Its Secrets One of the most infamous traitors in U.S. intelligence history is dead. Aldrich Ames, a former CIA officer whose betrayal exposed American spy networks and led to the arrest and execution of numerous U.S. intelligence sources, has died at the age of 84 while serving a life sentence in federal prison. Ames secretly sold classified information to the Soviet Union and Russia for millions of dollars, becoming on

Thirty-six years after he was arrested and convicted, the most successful double-agent to ever work inside the Central Intelligence Agency died this week at the Federal Correctional Institution at Cumberland, Maryland. From 1985, when he began selling secrets to the Soviet Union, Aldrich Hazen Ames compromised over 100 CIA operations, enabled the execution of ten high-level sources, and helped plant disinformation which made its way to three United States presidents. An official investigation co