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Aldrich Ames, CIA officer who spied for Russia, dead at 84

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Aldrich Ames, a longtime Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) case officer who betrayed U.S. intelligence by spying for the Soviet Union and later Russia, died at the age of 84.The Bureau of Prisons website shows that Ames died on Monday. He was being held at the Federal Correctional Institution in Cumberland, Maryland, where he was serving out a life sentence.The FBI said it arrested Ames, a 31-year veteran of the CIA, in 1994 on espionage charges, after he began passing classified information to the KGB in 1985, compromising numerous CIA and FBI human sources, some of whom were later executed.R...