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Aldrich Ames

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Aldrich Hazen Ames (; born May 26, 1941) is an American former CIA counterintelligence officer who was convicted of espionage on behalf of the Soviet Union and Russia in 1994. He is serving a life sentence, without the possibility of parole, in the Federal Correctional Institution in Terre Haute, Indiana. Ames was known to have compromised more highly classified CIA assets than any other officer until Robert Hanssen, who was arrested seven years later in 2001. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Aldrich Ames is the 136th most popular extremist (down from 124th in 2019), the 3,244th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,732nd in 2019) and the 46th most popular American Extremist.

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Aldrich Ames ranks 136 out of 283. Before him are David Berkowitz, Omar Abdel-Rahman, Delphine LaLaurie, Wilhelm Boger, Robert Hansen, and Charles Sobhraj. After him are Jalaluddin Haqqani, Jacques Mesrine, Eugen Weidmann, Frank Nitti, Baruch Goldstein, and Patricia Krenwinkel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Aldrich Ames ranks 195. Before him are Umberto Bossi, Fionnula Flanagan, Myron Scholes, Sergei Dovlatov, Élisabeth Depardieu, and Edmund Stoiber. After him are Paavo Lipponen, Akiko Wakabayashi, Peter Coyote, Peter Cullen, Leon Russom, and Salvatore Accardo.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Aldrich Ames ranks 3,244 out of 20,380. Before him are Riddick Bowe (1967), John C. Breckinridge (1821), Larry David (1947), Fife Symington (1945), Nikki Sixx (1958), and Debra Paget (1933). After him are Brandy Norwood (1979), Jill Clayburgh (1944), Peter Gallagher (1955), Edna Parker (1893), Dinah Washington (1924), and William Wallace Campbell (1862).

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Among EXTREMISTS In United States

Among extremists born in United States, Aldrich Ames ranks 46. Before him are Robert Stroud (1890), Richard Ramirez (1960), Anwar al-Awlaki (1971), David Berkowitz (1953), Delphine LaLaurie (1787), and Robert Hansen (1939). After him are Baruch Goldstein (1956), Patricia Krenwinkel (1947), Whitey Bulger (1929), Stephen Paddock (1953), Joseph Valachi (1904), and Samuel Little (1940).

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