Aldrich Ames

The most damaging mole in CIA history. A nine-year betrayal that cost lives and crippled American intelligence. The greed-driven traitor who sold his country for $4.6 million. Aldrich Ames walked the corridors of CIA headquarters with blood on his hands and Soviet cash in his pockets. As a trusted officer in the Agency's Soviet counterintelligence division, he possessed the keys to America's most sensitive operations behind the Iron Curtain. Between 1985 and 1994, he systematically sold them all to Moscow. The cost was catastrophic. At least ten of the CIA's most valuable Soviet sources were executed. Intelligence networks painstakingly built over decades collapsed overnight. The Agency's ability to penetrate the highest levels of Soviet and later Russian power was gutted. And through it all, Ames lived a double life, maintaining his career at Langley while meeting his KGB handlers in safe houses and dead drops across Washington D.C.