“The human spy, in terms of the American effort, is not remotely the soul of the business.”

— Aldrich Ames

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About Aldrich Ames

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Aldrich Hazen Ames is a former American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) counterintelligence officer who was convicted of espionage in 1994. He spied for the Soviet Union and later Russia, compromising one of the...

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