The Man Who Sold America's Biggest Nuclear Secrets for Cash - Federal Confidential

Описание: For nearly a decade, the CIA's most vital operations inside the Soviet Union collapsed one by one. This is the story of Aldrich Ames, the unassuming, high-ranking officer at the heart of the disaster, who traded his country's most guarded secrets for cash and became the most damaging mole in American history.

For nine years, the CIA hunted a phantom mole that was systematically liquidating their entire network of Russian spies. The truth of who the traitor was, and why he did it, was more banal and more shocking than they could ever imagine.

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In this episode of Federal Confidential, we uncover the story of Aldrich Ames. We explore how this overlooked, debt-ridden CIA officer walked into the Soviet Embassy and methodically sold his country’s most guarded secrets for cash, and reveal the shocking consequences that led to the execution of America’s most important spies and the catastrophic failure of the entire agency to stop him.

This is a story of profound betrayal, personal greed, and catastrophic system failure that is essential for understanding the high-stakes human cost of Cold War counterintelligence.
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