Aldrich Hazen Ames (; born May 26, 1941)<!-- Despite what is noted on his mugshot, various reliable sources note that Ames was born on 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 Cumberland, Maryland. 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. Wikipedia