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Aldrich Ames

Aldrich Ames
Aldrich Ames, a counterintelligence officer for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), is detained in 1994 following the discovery that he sold secrets to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). After making a plea bargain with federal prosecutors, Ames was sentenced to life imprisonment for espionage and tax evasion.
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