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A young Ames in the 1958 McLean High School yearbook. Ames was born in River Falls, Wisconsin, on May 26, 1941, to Carleton Cecil Ames and Rachel Ames (née Aldrich).His father was a college lecturer at the Wisconsin State College-River Falls, and his mother a high school English teacher.
Aldrich Ames, a CIA counterintelligence agent working in the SE Division, approached the Soviet Embassy in Washington, D.C., on April 16, 1985, and within a month received $50,000 from the KGB in exchange for espionage service.
Sandra Grimes is a former CIA officer who participated in a small team that investigated and uncovered the actions of Aldrich Ames, [1] a United States counterintelligence officer who was subsequently convicted of spying for the Soviet Union.
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Soon a high-ranking American CIA officer, Aldrich Ames, began selling secrets to the KGB and reported Gordievsky's treachery to Soviet counterintelligence. Ames first met and sold classified information to a KGB agent on 15 May 1985, in Washington, D.C.; the following day Gordievsky received the telegram from KGB leadership recalling him to ...
As Hanssen was spying from within the FBI, however, another Russian asset was spying from within the CIA -- Aldrich Ames. He, too, disclosed Polyakov’s identity, and TOPHAT was executed in 1986 ...
Investigation which uncovered the actions of Aldrich Ames Jeanne Ruth Vertefeuille (December 23, 1932 – December 29, 2012) was a CIA officer who participated in a small team that investigated and uncovered the actions of Aldrich Ames , a notorious Cold War spy.
Despite the intelligence he provided, Martynov's fate was sealed when Aldrich Ames, [4] a CIA officer who had turned into an informant for the Soviet Union, betrayed him. Ames, motivated by financial gain and possibly a deep sense of resentment toward his agency, provided the KGB with the names of numerous American spies and assets, including ...