Aldrich Ames

Aldrich Ames is a name that makes my skin crawl. Born in River Falls, Wisconsin, educated at George Washington University, he sat at the heart of American counterintelligence as a CIA officer, and then sold his country to the Soviet Union and Russia as a double agent. The cruelty is in the consequences, the agents he exposed who were arrested and even executed because of what he traded away. He died in 2026, and I regard him as a tragedy rather than a villain alone. A man at the core of trust converted that trust into cash, and his intelligence became the instrument of his ruin. It is a name worth remembering as a warning.

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Name (English)

Aldrich Ames

Name (Japanese)

オルドリッチ・エイムズ

Reading

おるどりっち・えいむず

Born

May 26, 1941 – January 5, 2026

Origin

River Falls, Wisconsin, United States

Occupation

spy / government agent / double agent

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Snake

High school

McLean High School

University

George Washington University

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldrich%20Ames
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AA%E3%83%AB%E3%83%89%E3%83%AA%E3%83%83%E3%83%81%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A8%E3%82%A4%E3%83%A0%E3%82%BA
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q452267

Tags

• Wisconsin
• spy
• government agent
• double agent

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.