00:00This man with the Hitler stash is America's most notorious double agent who managed to fool the CIA for nearly a decade.
00:11America's biggest intelligence nightmare wasn't a foreign spy.
00:15He was one of their own, sitting inside their own headquarters, trusted with the deepest secrets of the Cold War.
00:21Aldrich Ames, a senior CIA officer, chief of counterintelligence for the Soviet division and the single most damaging double agent the US intelligence community has ever known.
00:32Ames wasn't recruited by the Soviets. He walked into their embassy himself.
00:36In 1985, at the height of the Cold War, he hand-delivered CIA secrets to the KGB, which was the Soviet Union's main intelligence agency, and asked for money.
00:45Vodka, arrogance and greed drove him.
00:48He believed the spy game was a sham, and he wanted to beat it.
00:51And then he went all in. Afraid one of the CIA's Russian assets might expose him, Ames chose betrayal on an industrial scale.
00:58He handed over the names of almost every Soviet spy working for the US.
01:02A six-pound stack of documents, decades of intelligence wiped out in one move.
01:07The consequences were deadly. At least 10 US assets were arrested and executed by the KGB.
01:12America's entire intelligence network inside the Soviet Union collapsed.
01:17Disinformation filled the gap, and for years, US policy was shaped by lies fed through double agents.
01:22What makes Ames truly chilling is how long he got away with it.
01:26Nearly a decade, despite obvious red flags.
01:29Chronic alcoholism, classified files left on trains, and suddenly a CIA officer paying lavishly bizarre amounts of cash for luxury cars and a mansion.
01:38Internal warnings were ignored. Investigation stalled. The system failed upward.
01:43He was finally arrested in 1994. Pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life in prison.
01:48His wife, who spent the blood money, went to jail too. Ames never showed remorse.
01:52He called American espionage a self-serving illusion and said he had already sentenced himself to a living death.
01:58Aldrich Ames proved that the most dangerous enemy is sometimes right under your nose.
02:03He passed away on 5th January 2026 at the age of 84.
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