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Aldrich Ames, Most Damaging CIA Traitor in Agency History, Dies at 84

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The Washington Post

13:40 JST, January 8, 2026

Aldrich H. Ames, the CIA officer whose spying for Moscow was the most damaging breach in the agency’s history, reportedly causing the deaths of at least 10 recruited CIA or allied intelligence agents, died Jan. 5 at the Federal Correctional Institution in Cumberland, Maryland. He was 84.

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