Notorious CIA Spy Aldrich Ames Dies in Prison — The Traitor Who Cost America Its Secrets One of the most infamous traitors in U.S. intelligence history is dead. Aldrich Ames, a former CIA officer whose betrayal exposed American spy networks and led to the arrest and execution of numerous U.S. intelligence sources, has died at the age of 84 while serving a life sentence in federal prison. Ames secretly sold classified information to the Soviet Union and Russia for millions of dollars, becoming on