In 1994, a high-ranking CIA officer admitted to being a devastating Soviet mole
The security of the United States was shaken when Aldrich Ames, a high-ranking CIA officer, admitted to selling top-secret intelligence to the Soviet Union for nearly a decade.
In 1994, Aldrich Ames pleaded guilty to espionage, ending one of the most damaging betrayals in the history of American intelligence. As a counterintelligence officer, Ames had access to the names of every secret agent working for the U.S. inside the Soviet Union.
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