Former Central Intelligence Agency officer Aldrich Ames, sentenced to life in prison for spying for Moscow, has died in a US prison.
This is according to information in the online database of the Federal Bureau of Prisons of the US Department of Justice.
Ames is listed as “Died January 5, 2026“. The cause of death was not given, but it is stated that Ames was 84 years old. He served his sentence in a prison in Maryland.
According to the indictment, Ames collaborated with Soviet and later Russian foreign intelligence for 10 years. According to US data, he betrayed more than 10 CIA agents working in Russian state agencies and the defense industry. In 1994, he was sentenced to life in prison by a US court.