In damaging intelligence breach, Ames admitted to passing information to Moscow for nearly a decade

The former counterintelligence officer, who was serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole, died on Jan. 5. He was 84.

In damaging intelligence breach, Ames admitted to passing information to Moscow for nearly a decade

The double agent compromised more than 100 operations and betrayed more than 30 agents spying for the West.

Aldrich Ames, a former CIA agent who spied for the Soviet Union and then Russia, died in prison, according to prison records. He was 84 years old.

Era nato nel 1941 e il padre aveva lavorato a sua volta come analista della CIA: entrò nell’agenzia a 26 anni e gradualmente fece carriera fino a essere nominato capo del servizio…