Aldrich Ames, CIA agent who sold secrets to the Soviets, dies aged 84
www.bbc.com
The double agent compromised more than 100 operations and betrayed more than 30 agents spying for the West.
  • amemorablename@lemmygrad.ml
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    2 days ago

    It was his escalating debts that led him to selling the wealth of secrets that he had access to.

    “It was about the money, and I don’t think he ever really tried to lead anybody to believe it was anything more than that,” FBI agent Leslie G Wiser, who was involved in the investigation that led to Ames’s arrest, told the BBC’s Witness History in 2015.

    So the BBC article alleges that he didn’t even do it because of allegiance, but because of debts and the financial payoff from selling out agents. Isn’t that such a fitting capitalism moment?