CIA Agent Turned Soviet Spy Dies
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From its earliest days, the Soviet Union’s intelligence services — whether known as the Cheka or by the names of any of its successor agencies like the KGB — kept the government in power by pursuing its opponents no matter where they lived.
Aldrich Ames, who has died aged 84, had a 32-year career with the CIA and was a double agent for the last nine of them; he did to the CIA what Kim Philby did to British Intelligence, but did it for the money rather than any enthusiasm for Communism.