7 of the Greatest Spies Who Ever Lived: List of Famous Spies of All Time

7. Aldrich Ames

Started working as a spy in 1969.

Sometimes, when it comes to spy games, you can get confused, pretty easily, since the players can switch sides in a blink of an eye. In this case, a counterintelligence agent of the CIA, turned out to be one of the most effective Russian spies in the recent history of their espionage. Because of financial problems, Aldrich became a mole for Russians, and the information he gave to them compromised, 100 CIA agents, and as a result of that, 10 US Secret Service agents died. The CIA was suspecting that they have a  mole in their ranks for long, but since they had no evidence, they supposed that the Russians have somehow bugged them. The things that gave Ames away were, his new expensive house, a brand new sports car, and a huge phone bill every month, and his government salary was not nearly enough to cover all that. This brought the CIA’s attention to him, and he got arrested in 1994 in Washington. He was charged with spying for the USSR, and got sentenced to life.

7 of the Greatest Spies Who Ever Lived Aldrich Ames

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