Aldrich Ames

Aldrich Ames
Aldrich Ames
	Ames in 1994
Born	Aldrich Hazen Ames; June 26, 1941; River Falls, Wisconsin, U.S.
Education	University of Chicago; George Washington University (BA);
Criminal charge	18 U.S.C. § 794(c) (Espionage Act)
Criminal penalty	Life imprisonment without the possibility of parole
Criminal status	Incarcerated at FCI Terre Haute
Spouses	Nancy Segebarth (m. 1969; div. 1983); Maria del Rosario Casas Dupuy (m. 1985);
Children	1 (with Maria)
	Espionage activity
Country	United States
Allegiance	Soviet Union; Russia;
Agency	CIA
Service years	1962–1994;

Aldrich Hazen Ames (/eɪmz/; born June 26, 1941) is an American former CIA counterintelligence officer who was convicted of espionage on behalf of the Soviet Union and Russia in 1994. He is serving a life sentence, without the possibility of parole, in the Federal Correctional Institution in Terre Haute, Indiana. Ames was known to have compromised more highly classified CIA assets than any other officer until Robert Hanssen, who was arrested seven years later in 2001.

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