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Related: About this forumOn this day, February 21, 1994, Aldrich Ames was arrested for selling national secrets to the Soviet Union.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_21• 1994 – Aldrich Ames is arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for selling national secrets to the Soviet Union in Arlington County, Virginia.
He lived not at all far from where I lived, when I lived in Arlington. I walked around his neighborhood.
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On this day, February 21, 1994, Aldrich Ames was arrested for selling national secrets to the Soviet Union. (Original Post)
mahatmakanejeeves
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DURHAM D
(32,890 posts)1. Where is he now? nt
mahatmakanejeeves
(64,118 posts)2. Terre Haute, Indiana
Ames is incarcerated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons as prisoner #40087-083, serving his life sentence in the medium-security Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) in Terre Haute, Indiana.
Ocelot II
(124,076 posts)3. Will Trump pardon him, too?
Since Agent Orange obviously doesn't think selling secrets to the Russians is a crime or even a problem.
Timewas
(2,402 posts)4. In todays world
He would be given a position in t-rump admin.