Aldrich Ames
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Aldrich Hazen Ames is an American former CIA counterintelligence officer who was convicted of espionage on behalf of the Soviet Union and Russia in 1994. He is serving a life sentence, without the possibility of parole, in the Federal Correctional Institution in Terre Haute, Indiana. Ames was known to have compromised more highly classified CIA assets than any other officer until Robert Hanssen, who was arrested seven years later in 2001.
A young Ames in the 1958 McLean High School yearbook
Replacement of the mailbox used by Ames; a horizontal chalk mark above the USPS logo at Garfield Street and Garfield Terrace NW was a signal that a meeting with the Soviets was needed. The original mailbox is now housed in the International Spy Museum.
The CIA mole hunt team, c. 1990. Left to right: Sandy Grimes, Paul Redmond, Jeanne Vertefeuille, Diana Worthen, and Dan Payne.
Robert Hanssen
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Robert Philip Hanssen was an American Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent who spied for Soviet and Russian intelligence services against the United States from 1979 to 2001. His espionage was described by the Department of Justice as "possibly the worst intelligence disaster in U.S. history".
"Ellis" dead drop site in Foxstone Park used by Hanssen, including on the day of his arrest.
Mug shot, taken on the day of his arrest
United States Penitentiary, Florence ADX, where he was incarcerated