ThePrintPod: Life of Aldrich Ames: Double agent who crippled CIA, sold secrets to Soviet's KGB & damaged US secret ops

Thirty-six years after he was arrested and convicted, the most
successful double-agent to ever work inside the Central
Intelligence Agency died this week at the Federal Correctional
Institution at Cumberland, Maryland. From 1985, when he began
selling secrets to the Soviet Union, Aldrich Hazen Ames
compromised over 100 CIA operations, enabled the execution of ten
high-level sources, and helped plant disinformation which made
its way to three United States presidents. An official
investigation concluded he “caused more damage to the national
security of the United States than any spy in the history of the
CIA.” watch @praveenswami explains in @theprintindia #Explorer
the most important lesson of the Ames case—which is how easy it
was for him to get away with it. Like all bureaucracies,
intelligence services—even the best ones—tend to be mired in
process and procedure.