He Sold 10 CIA Agents to Their Deaths for $46 Million | The Aldrich Ames Story | True Spy Story

Описание: Aldrich Ames was a CIA officer who betrayed America for $4.6 million, becoming the most damaging mole in US intelligence history. This is the true story of how one man sold CIA secrets to the Soviet Union, leading to the execution of at least 25 American intelligence assets. The Aldrich Ames espionage case remains the biggest spy scandal in Cold War history, exposing how a trusted CIA counterintelligence officer systematically compromised classified operations for nearly a decade.
In 1985, Ames walked into the Soviet Embassy and offered to sell the names of every CIA asset working inside Russia. The KGB paid him millions while he continued working at CIA headquarters, hunting for the very mole he had become. This documentary reveals how the FBI finally caught America's most notorious traitor, the surveillance operation that brought him down, and the devastating human cost of his betrayal.
Learn about the real tradecraft of Cold War espionage: dead drops in Washington DC, surveillance detection routes, polygraph countermeasures, and the mole hunt that took nine years to succeed. From the CIA's Soviet counterintelligence division to federal supermax prison, this is the complete story of the spy who destroyed American intelligence operations and got away with it until 1994.
Discover how financial red flags were ignored, why multiple polygraph tests failed to stop him, and what reforms the intelligence community implemented after the Ames case. This true crime spy story includes details about Dmitri Polyakov, Sergei Motorin, and other assets who paid the ultimate price for one man's greed.
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