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Aldrich Ames

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We had periodic crises in this country when the technical intelligence didn't support the policy. We had the bomber gap, the missile gap.


— Aldrich Ames


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When I got the money, the whole burden descended on me, and the realization of what I had done. And it led me then to make the further step, a change of loyalties.


— Aldrich Ames


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When Reagan was elected, I felt that the Agency had gone much more into the service of a political tendency in the country with which I had already felt very strong disagreement.


— Aldrich Ames


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You might as well ask why a middle-aged man with no criminal record might put a paper bag over his head and rob a bank. I acted out of personal desperation.


— Aldrich Ames


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U. Ames was initially "terrified" at the prospect of taking the test but he was advised by the KGB "to just relax. Several members of his family were involved in his spying activities as well.

Aldrich Hazen Ames (born May 26 1941) is a former Central Intelligence Agency counter-intelligence officer and analyst who in 1994 was convicted of spying for the Soviet Union and Russia. So far as is known Ames compromised the second-largest number of CIA assets—fewer only to those betrayed by Robert Hanssen.

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