Key Highlights
- Aldrich Ames died on January 5 at the Federal Correctional Institution in Cumberland, Maryland.
- He was serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole for espionage.
- Ames admitted to passing sensitive information to Moscow for nearly a decade.
- His actions compromised CIA operations during the Cold War.
- Ames was arrested by the FBI in February 1994 and pleaded guilty to espionage.
