Aldrich Ames
Aldrich Hazen Ames is a former American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) analyst turned KGB mole, who was convicted of espionage in 1994.
What Robert Hanssen was to the FBI, Aldrich Ames was to CIA.
In court, Ames admitted that he had compromised “virtually all Soviet agents of the CIA and other American and foreign services known to me” and had provided the USSR and Russia with a “huge quantity of information on the United States foreign, defense and security policies. It is estimated that information Ames provided to the Soviets led to the compromise of at least a hundred US intelligence operations and to the execution of at least ten US sources. Furthermore, Ames’ betrayal of CIA methods allowed the KGB to use “controlled agents” to feed the US both genuine intelligence and disinformation from 1986 to 1993.
He is serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole in the Federal Correctional Institution in Terre Haute, Indiana
