Former CIA case officer Aldrich Ames, one of America’s most damaging spies who sold secrets to Russia, died at 84 in a Maryland prison.
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AldrichAmes,alongtimeCentralIntelligenceAgency(CIA)caseofficerwhobetrayedU.S.intelligencebyspyingfortheSovietUnionandlaterRussia,diedattheageof84.
TheBureauofPrisonswebsiteshowsthatAmesdiedonMonday.
HewasbeingheldattheFederalCorrectionalInstitutioninCumberland,Maryland,wherehewasservingoutalifesentence.
TheFBIsaiditarrestedAmes,a31-yearveteranoftheCIA,in1994onespionagecharges,afterhebeganpassingclassifiedinformationtotheKGBin1985,compromisingnumerousCIAandFBIhumansources,someofwhomwerelaterexecuted.
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TheagencysaidAmes,aRussian-speakingCIAofficerwhospecializedinRussianintelligenceservices,secretlyprovidedclassifiedmaterialstotheKGBusing“deaddrops,”whichareconcealedlocationswheredocumentswerelefttoberetrievedlaterbySovietintelligenceofficersoperatingoutoftheUSSREmbassyinWashington.
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