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Aldrich Ames, the notorious CIA agent who sold secrets to the Soviets, dies in prison

2026-01-07 18:35:07Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Aldrich Ames, the notorious CIA agent who sold secrets to the Soviets, dies in
Aldrich Ames

Aldrich Ames, a CIA officer who became one of the most notorious double agents in United States history, has died at the age of 84.

The former counterintelligence officer, who was serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole, died Monday at the Federal Correctional Institution in Cumberland, Maryland, CBS News reported.

Ames was imprisoned on April 28, 1994 after admitting to selling secret information to the Soviet Union and then Russia.

He compromised over 100 covert operations and revealed the identities of more than 30 agents spying for the West, leading to the deaths of at least 10 CIA intelligence sources.

From debts to betrayal

Seeking money to pay off debts, Ames stated that in April 1985 he had begun giving the KGB the names of CIA spies, receiving an initial payment of $50,000.

Known by the KGB under the codename Kolokol ("Bell"), Ames managed to identify almost all of the CIA spies in the Soviet Union, for which he was rewarded handsomely.

"To my continued surprise, the KGB informed me that it had set aside $2 million for me, as a token of gratitude for the information," he said in an eight-page statement read in court.

Over the course of nine years, Ames admitted to receiving about $2.5 million from the Soviet Union for his betrayal of the US.

This money financed a luxurious lifestyle, including the purchase of a Jaguar, overseas holidays and a house worth $540,000, although his salary had never exceeded $70,000 a year.

Career on the rise, personal life on the decline

Ames' 31-year career at the CIA began in 1962, when his father, an analyst at the agency, helped him get a job after he dropped out of college.

He married CIA agent Nancy Segebarth in 1969 and was sent to Turkey as a counterintelligence officer to recruit foreign agents.

Three years later he returned to the US, where problems with alcohol began to emerge and his marriage began to crumble.

Despite several serious security breaches, including leaving a bag of classified documents on the subway, Ames was sent to Mexico City in 1981.

There he met his second wife, Maria del Rosario Casas Dupuy, a cultural attaché at the Colombian embassy and a CIA source, who was later accused of being a collaborator.

Aldrich Ames, the notorious CIA agent who sold secrets to the Soviets, dies in
Ames' second wife, Maria del Rosario Casas Dupuy, was accused as his accomplice.

After returning to the US in 1983, Ames was appointed head of the CIA's Soviet counterintelligence department, despite ongoing concerns about alcohol.

While his career was on the rise, his personal life was in shambles. In addition to his financial obligations to his ex-wife, he was also financing Rosario's lifestyle, including her passion for shopping.


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