Aldrich Ames - The Ultimate Double Agent, Part 1/2: Selling Secrets | CIA
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The Big Dump - Rick Ames
Aldrich Ames, or Rick, to those who knew him, was no different. He grew up in McLean, Virginia, which is the community right next to CIA headquarters. There's this weird mystique about the agency and the family legacy. Although an intelligent young man, he flunked out of college. But his dad has already pulled some strings and gets him a summer job marking up classified documents at CIA headquarters. Eventually, Rick goes back to college,. earns his degree, and is offered a place on the agency's career training program. The farm, better known as spy school. To this day, the US government has never officially acknowledged its existence.
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