Aldrich ames son
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An Assessment of the Aldrich H. Ames Espionage Case and Its Implications for U.S. Intelligence
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
01 November 1994
Part One
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INTRODUCTION
On February 21, 1994, agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) arrested a 52-year old employee of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Aldrich Hazen Ames, outside his Arlington, Virginia residence, on charges of conspiracy to commit espionage on behalf of Russia and the former Soviet Union. According to the affidavit supporting the arrest warrant, these activities had begun in April 1985, and continued to the time of the arrest. Ames's wife, Maria del Rosario Casas Ames, was arrested inside the residence on the same charges shortly after her husband was taken into custody.
Announced publicly the following day, the arrests prompted outrage and alarm across the co
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Aldrich Ames is a former CIA counterintelligence analyst who was committed treason against the U.S. government by spying for the Russians.
Aldrich Ames was born on May 26, 1941 in River Falls, Wisconsin to Carleton Cecil Ames and Rachel Ames. While Ames was in high school he obtained a job at the CIA as a low ranking records analyst. He was able to get the job because his father worked for the CIA’s Directorate of Operations. In 1965 after graduating from George Washington University, Ames returned to working for the CIA.
His first assignment was in Turkey where he was locating Russian intelligence officers to recruit for information. In 1969 he married Nancy Segebarth who was in the career training program with him. She ended up resigning due to a rule at the CIA forbidding married couples to work with each other. Even though Ames had recruited various important Soviet assets for the CIA he only received a satisfactory on his review. This discouraged Ames and made him consider leaving the agency. He returned to CIA headquarters in 1972 where he took on the job of planning oper
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Aldrich Ames
CIA analyst and Soviet spy (born 1941)
Aldrich Hazen Ames (; born May 26, 1941)[2][3] is an American former CIAcounterintelligence 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.[4][5] 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.
Early life and education
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 was the eldest of three children and the only son. In 1952, his father began working with the Central Intelligence Agency's Directorate of Operations in Langley, Virginia. The following year, in 1953, his father was posted to Southeast Asi
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