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Ames' betrayal of CIA methods also allowed the KGB to use "controlled agents" to feed the U.S. both genuine intelligence and disinformation from 1986 to 1993. Some of this "feed material" was incorporated into CIA intelligence reports, several of which even reached three U.S. presidents .
On April 16, 1985, while assigned to the CIA’s Soviet/ East European Division at CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia, he secretly volunteered to KGB officers at the USSR Embassy,...
Oct 25, 2024 · In 1985, aided by Rosario, who by then no longer worked for the CIA, Ames began selling American intelligence information to the KGB. At least 10 CIA agents within the Soviet Union were executed as a result of Ames’s spying; ultimately, he revealed the name of every U.S. agent operating in the Soviet Union (after 1991, Russia).
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Former CIA agent Aldrich Ames has admitted selling secrets to the Soviet Union and then Russia, in what is regarded as one of the most damaging spy cases in US history.
Apr 20, 2018 · According to FBI and Agency officials, it was not until a search of Ames's residential trash in September 1993, which produced a copy of an operational note from Ames to the Russians, that they were certain Ames was a spy.
Jan 8, 2014 · Sandra Grimes, a CIA officer, gathered evidence on the treasonous acts of Aldrich Ames. Her story has been made into a TV miniseries
Jun 1, 2023 · In 1994, CIA counterintelligence officer Aldrich Hazen Ames was convicted of espionage for selling the names of U.S. assets to the Soviet Union. A #CIA double agent revealed secrets to the Soviets to fund his lavish lifestyle.
