CIA’s most damaging mole passes away
Aldrich H. Ames, the CIA officer whose spying for Moscow during the Soviet era represented the most damaging breach in the history of the U.S. intelligence agency—causing the deaths of at least 10 agents recruited by the CIA or allied intelligence services—died on January 5 at the Federal Correctional Institution in Cumberland, Maryland.
He was 84 years old, CE Report quotes ANSA.
His death was recorded in the Federal Bureau of Prisons inmate database, which did not specify the cause of death, and was confirmed by a CIA spokesperson.
