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mahatmakanejeeves

(64,118 posts)
Fri Feb 21, 2025, 02:04 PM Feb 21

On 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 Feb 21 OP
Where is he now? nt DURHAM D Feb 21 #1
Terre Haute, Indiana mahatmakanejeeves Feb 21 #2
Will Trump pardon him, too? Ocelot II Feb 21 #3
In todays world Timewas Feb 21 #4

mahatmakanejeeves

(64,118 posts)
2. Terre Haute, Indiana
Fri Feb 21, 2025, 02:27 PM
Feb 21
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?
Fri Feb 21, 2025, 02:33 PM
Feb 21

Since Agent Orange obviously doesn't think selling secrets to the Russians is a crime or even a problem.

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