Ames, Aldrich

Ames, Aldrich

▪ American spy
in full  Aldrich Hazen Ames  
born June 26, 1941, River Falls, Wis., U.S.

      American official of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) who was entrusted with discovering Soviet spies, and who himself became one of the most successful double agents for the Soviet Union and Russia.

      The son of a CIA analyst, Ames attended the University of Chicago for two years before becoming a CIA trainee in 1962; he also attended George Washington University (B.A., 1967). In 1969–72 Ames was posted to Ankara, Turkey, where he recruited U.S. spies from among Soviet nationals. He then lived in the United States until 1981, when he was posted to Mexico City, where he met his second wife, Maria del Rosario Casas Dupuy, a Colombian he recruited to work for the CIA. They married in 1985, while he was based again at CIA headquarters near Washington, D.C.; he was posted to Rome in 1986–89.

      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 told the Soviet Union (after 1991, Russia) the name of every U.S. agent operating in their country. Before Aldrich and Maria Ames were arrested in 1994, they had received over $2.7 million, the most money paid by the Soviet Union/Russia to any American for spying.

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