What happened to aldrich ames, wife
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An Assessment of the Aldrich H. Ames Espionage Case and Its Implications for U.S. Intelligence
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
01 November 1994
Part One
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INTRODUCTION
On February 21, 1994, agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) arrested a 52-year old employee of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Aldrich Hazen Ames, outside his Arlington, Virginia residence, on charges of conspiracy to commit espionage on behalf of Russia and the former Soviet Union. According to the affidavit supporting the arrest warrant, these activities had begun in April 1985, and continued to the time of the arrest. Ames's wife, Maria del Rosario Casas Ames, was arrested inside the residence on the same charges shortly after her husband was taken into custody.
Announced publicly the following day, the arrests prompted outrage and alarm across the co
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Aldrich Ames is a former CIA counterintelligence analyst who was committed treason against the U.S. government by spying for the Russians.
Aldrich Ames was born on May 26, 1941 in River Falls, Wisconsin to Carleton Cecil Ames and Rachel Ames. While Ames was in high school he obtained a job at the CIA as a low ranking records analyst. He was able to get the job because his father worked for the CIA’s Directorate of Operations. In 1965 after graduating from George Washington University, Ames returned to working for the CIA.
His first assignment was in Turkey where he was locating Russian intelligence officers to recruit for information. In 1969 he married Nancy Segebarth who was in the career training program with him. She ended up resigning due to a rule at the CIA forbidding married couples to work with each other. Even though Ames had recruited various important Soviet assets for the CIA he only received a satisfactory on his review. This discouraged Ames and made him consider leaving the agency. He returned to CIA headquarters in 1972 where he took on the job of planning oper
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Born 1941 in River Falls, Wisconsin, the son of Carleton Ames, a teacher at River Falls State Teachers College and grandson of Jesse Ames, the president of the school. His mother was also a teacher. Carleton Ames struggled with alcohol but introduced his son to the theatre, a passion that Aldrich would follow for years as he participated in plays throughout high school. The Ames family moved to McLean, Virginia in 1951 when Carleton took a position with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), where he worked for a time with James Jesus Angleton. Aldrich enrolled at George Washington University, majoring in history and took a part-time position, arranged by his father, at the CIA in 1959. He was believed to be one of the youngest employees ever with the agency and received a degree from George Washington in 1967. The Ames family moved to McLean, Virginia in 1951 when Carleton Ames took a position with the CIA where he worked for a time with James Jesus Angleton. Aldrich enrolled at George Washington University, majoring in history and took a part-time position, arranged by his
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