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CIA officer who betrayed western intelligence assets and espionage operations to the Soviet Union and Russia

Aldrich Ames, who has died in prison aged 84, was the most senior CIA officer ever to be ex…

Ames had been head of the Soviet branch in the CIA's counterintelligence group and gave the Kremlin the names of dozens of Russians who were spying for the United States.
The double agent compromised more than 100 operations and betrayed more than 30 agents spying for the West.

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

Aldrich Ames, the CIA agent who spied for the Soviet Union and Russia in one of the most damaging in…

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