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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
(32,892 posts)1. Where is he now? nt
mahatmakanejeeves
(64,417 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
(124,338 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
(2,420 posts)4. In todays world
He would be given a position in t-rump admin.