Ames compares himself to the brave Soviet agents of the CIA who, he said, only did the same as him. He admits folly and greed were his motivation but that was not the case of the CIA's Soviet agents. They were risking their lives to try and change the world for the better. Ames got them killed, as he admits. No words to describe him.
@@marco252005 ideology was why the Soviets did what they did.. money was why Ames did what he did.. in the case of Hanssen he took a lot of money but it was more important for him to be heard..and to this day what Robert Hanssen sold damaging this country a lot of it is still classified.. Same goes for John Anthony Walker that was greed exemplified
General Polyakov deserves a statue in the Capitol. Perhaps somewhere close to The Lincoln Memorial. General Polyakov didn't do it for money, he helped The United States because he believed in it and the individual freedoms it's citizens enjoyed. He wanted the same for The Russian people. He is a Hero of The United States and every member of his family who wishes to live here should be given citizenship and easy lives. Hopefully some already have.
@@TewodrosBaye1 It is no different than it was in the time of rhe founders when Jeffersons democratic- Republicans were using the media to turn public opinion against Hamiltons Federalists. In fact it can be argued that the vitriolic nature of the media then was even more nasty than it is today. Of course it would be ideal if all Americans were inn harmony and the heath of the republic was more important to everyone than the health and stability of one's party but the impulse by some to see anyone who's ideas are different than their own as malicious and will use this impulse to justify their own bad intentions. It would be a wonderful utopia if we could be like the Russians with no parties or factions would it not? Or is it better if not always perfect that we let our party minded people cancel eachother out in and endless struggle against eachother while the judiciary prevents majority rules and checks and balances keeps their factional war from affecting those of us who simply wish to harness those people to the political realm where their struggle for power against eachother keeps them too busy to turn their desire for power against the population. You'd be surprised how little we've changed since the Founding and I'm glad of it. We should be allowed to prosper while our political class is busy beating their heads against eachother. I consider myself a Federalist at heart. I vote republican for president but Democrat for congress so there will be a chain on power in both the legislature and the executive. If a Democrat beats my candidate for president I always change my midterm votes from Democrat in the house and senate to republican. It is our duty as citizens to always put the country first by making sure neither party has enough power to infringe my access to success or my want to be left alone to profit. It has always worked and still does. We are without wanting too be global hegemon. It's time we went back to the intentions of the founders and isolated ourselves from the rest of the world's problems. We should always look inward and direct our power inward to strengthen ourselves and stop wasting our resources and blood for the sake of foreigners. We should tend to the five eyes alliance of course as strengthening the Anglo Saxon alliance between the five Anglo Saxon nations is to our mutual benefit. We should abandon all others as outside our culture and not in our interests to protect unless they offer something in return. Ukraine for instance. If they were to offer us drilling rights we should protect them. If not what gain to us? We are fine and always will be. I only get nervous when the two parties are not fighting echother. A government set against itself under rules directed by The Supreme Court is a perfect system. A government in perfect harmony is to able to interfere in the business of the people...the true sovereigns.
Aldrich Ames was head of counterintelligence against the Soviets in the CIA. The CIA desperately needed Soviet officials to defect and serve as double agents but the security in Moscow was tighter than ever. Being the head of that department, he simply said: "I'll be going to the Soviet embassy to cultivate a new source" (as in new official to help us) or something like that. Just like that, no one suspected him as many Soviet officials working for them in the past came from embassies.
He was being detected, even more funny he was there with the blessing of the CIA allegedly cultivating a possible source.He hid in plain sight used this CIA-operation to make a Faustian-pact
He did what the agency expected him to do as far as counter intelligence.. until he sold not only his soul but the soul's of the American people and the Soviets that knew that the USSR was run by shit..
Thanks him for that! He was stupid enough to betray US for the Soviet Union, why he would be stupid enough to put money in his bank account? Because of him a lot of people were executed!!!
The CIA and KGB weren't the same. Polyakov was tortured for three years and executed by the KGB while Ames got life in a decent prison and gave interviews. I lived through communism and our life was so hard I would have gladly traded it for prison in America. You can see the difference between the KGB and the CIA in this video: the terrified face of a man of steel and the self sufficient demeanor of a coward.
You are writing a gigantic pile of horse shit! Life in the USSR wasn’t at all tough in the 1980’s. Anyone who wanted a job could get one and the salary was always enough to pay for all of life’s necessities! The system was fair and rewarded hard work and genuine effort! It’s a system that produced the worlds best scientists and engineers! The brain drain didn’t happen for no reason!
Same old story. Once Ames started receiving "payments' (blood money), he started living far beyond his means. Had he maintained his cool and status quo, who knows.
As opposed to Soros, Madoff and hundreds of other American professionals not driven by greed? Wake up and look at where you live. Your nation is founded upon greed
What this film clip didn't show was how they narrowed down the list of possible moles in the CIA, Jeanne Vertefeuille had asked the team members who bothered them most and why. Then give a score for each person on the list. Aldrich Ames topped the list. I've heard him described by others as a sociopath, which is kind of the hartless person it would take to send people to their deaths for money.
@@mitchjohnson4714 takes years to build a solid case on someone trained to hide information and keep secrets. They knew they had their man from day one of the investigation.
General Polyakov was a decorated hero fully loyal to the USSR. When he was working in the US, his newborn son got ill. He needed an operation worth 400 dollars, which Polyakov didn’t have. He formally asked his superiors for money, they thought about it for 3 months and refused; his son died shortly afterwards. After retiring he was offered a way to escape to the US when it became clear that double agents are being arrested, but refused, saying that he didn’t do it for Americans or himself, he did it to help his own country.
The story is not completely accurate. His son apparently got Polio in NY C in the summer which at the time was not that unusual. Polyakov wanted this son to go to some US clinic specialising in such cases. THe Russian embassy would not allow it and I think wanted him treated in Moscow (which would have meant splitting up the family). I'm not sure about the costs you mention they seem very small by today's US medical numbers but perhaps that was correct for the late 1950s.
@@acmebrainsurgery it's true.. he was offered a way out for him and his family multiple times and declined.. and the sad part of that was when the soviet union fell his family did just that.. and fled to the United States..as the whereabouts of Polyakov's remains ( ashes) remain unknown
@BHAKTIBROPHY You're right about Polyakov. He could have went to America and lived out the rest of his days but he said "I didn't do this for America I did this for Russia and Russia is where I will stay." And he knew he would very likely be executed. He felt that the U.S. was naive in some ways and that they would lose the Cold War to the USSR and that would give unchecked power to Russia's corrupt leaders and ultimately the Russian people would suffer even more. Someone can love their country and dislike the leaders at the same time. He loved his country. Fucking Ames is just the a rat. He could have given intel for money and protected individuals as much as possible, Polyakov was more careful in that respect. Ames has no redeeming qualities whatsoever. Some suggest that Polyakov's sons death may have been the catalyst for his decision to go to the FBI. His son had a very deadly and rare disease and the worlds leading specialist was in NYC. The KGB refused to let him take his son to the US for treatment. He felt they put politics ahead of the needs of citizens. His son died no long after.
If you have a rental property, the city comes through every 3 years to make sure the building is still up to code. The system needs to employ cyclic background checks every 5 years or so to ensure everyone still rates their clearance, and not try to explain away the results. If so, they would have seen Ames couldn't explain his lifestyle. Guys like Ames and Pollard should have been weeded out and dismissed early in their careers due to red flags.
It's weird that many people think life in prison without parole is better than death sentence! They probably are after living at any price! I prefer to die rather than life sentence in a cell!
No amount of money, not a million, and not a billion is worth betraying yourself, family, and your country. I bet 1 minute of freedom, 1 day away from jail is worth much more than the pathetic 2million he made.
This is amazing. Ames buys a car worth more than his yearly salary and lives in way too expensive house and the rocket scientists at the CIA finally think. “Gee maybe this means something?” Keystone cops.
I grew up in Arlington Virginia less than a mile away from Ames' home and drove by it hundreds of times when visiting my best friend. He has red shudders, the color of the USSR, ha ha.
His dad was in the agency and he was a legacy. The people who found him knew him. So you mean to tell me that just after the general and countless assets we’re carted off we didn’t immediately check everyone’s bank account in CI. That’s crazy everyone’s bank account should have been checked immediately.
It really makes me physically sick that this guy wasn't given the death penalty shortly after his capture and they had gotten all the information they could from him
It amazes me how he is explaining why he did what he did. By saying "I did the same" is, in this context of what he did, just unbelievable. 8:50 It is horrific, this can only come from a very twisted mind and unempathic soul.
He is so confident in his evil ideas, even not realizing that is not the same to be judged as a traitor by KGB, to get a death sentence in 1 month, or to be judged by USA where you can get life and give interviews have a good food and health Insirance!
At first Ames says that the reason for selling secrets was simple greed and folly. Then he changes the story as he picks up the excuse that some of the guys he betrayed "did it too". Yeah, so he doesn't think the US is any different from the USSR, and the video ends well by pointing out he's alive behind bars whereas Poliakov got a bullet in the head.
gfexc Really? Go tell it to the Hungarians and the Poles and the Romanians and the Latvians and the Lithuanians and the Estonians and the Germans and the Czechs. What a genuinely vapid ass you are.
Michael White You forgot the Koreans (propped of north korea worst country ever except Middle east ones) and the Ukrainians (holodomor and a million other things like its current invasion) and Georgians (Invasion, split up of the country
I really wonder that he first made contact by walking into the soviet embassy. I would have though during the Cold War the soviet embassy would have been observed 24/7.
Spying is one of the sleaziest but necessary functions of a nation. We're outraged when Ames betrayed his country and gave up a bunch of names of people that we had paid and / or convinced to betray their country.
The 10 men Ames snitched to with the KGB led directly to their deaths. Ames could not get the death penalty since it was not enforce for espionage during peacetime then. Ames knew this. Ames betrayed this country for money. General Polyakov aided the US because he saw the destruction to the citizens of USSR by Communism and the KGB. Ames is an arrogant weasel.
Russian agents who betray Russia ARE good because they work against an evil system. American agents who betray America are BAD because they are working against a good system. I can't believe I had to explain this to you.
Even though the Russian guy is on his way to death he can't help but grin at the ridiculous measures being taken to embarrass him like putting him in a headlock like hes friggin doomguy or somethin.
Wow this guy makes me sick. He's so flippant and smug, playing with people's lives so he could get rich. The soviets who defected were trying to save their country and save their families.
I'm a bit surprised they gave Aldrich Ames the chance to do an interview. I'm glad they did tho cause it's intriguing. Robert Hanssen on other hand committed similar crimes w/ the same gravity, and he's buried alive in total solitude and obscurity. Like he exists but at the same time he doesnt.
ADX Florence supermax. A who’s who list of famous criminals. El Chapo, Unabomber, Al Qaeda leaders, spies, World Trade Center bomber (the first bombing in the 90s) just imagine the stories those guys could share if they all sat together. Wow
@@misterceo2168 And IMO Tsarnaev shouldn't be there tho or meet the DP .. serve life elsewhere certainly. His older brother put him up to all that shit & he was young (although technically an adult) yet he was so subservient to his older bro Tam to a level that he could've told him anything and he'd do it. He lacked the penchant, motive, and malignant ideology within him for that type of crime. I wish it was the other way around with him & his bro Tam in terms of where they are at now
Polyakov turned on his government because he cared about his people and the way they were mistreated, Ames turned on his government because he cared about his bank account and the things money could buy.
Stop trying to justify treachery. No matter which way you look at things, they committed the same act. The motivation doesn't matter to the people they've fucked over.
Laughable how all these sociopaths justify their actions with basically "the reasons i did it were fine by me" like yeah buddy as if you're qualified to set the standard. Absolute monster
Or atleast, that was the reason that Polyakov gave. If it was his real reason is ofcourse unknown. And yes, both men deserved what they got and knew well what were the consequences of their actions if they were found out.
If you listen closely you clue into the reality that the intelligent services are way behind the curve when it comes to technology. One example, "he was reading the bank statements and I was entering them into the computer" (manually!) It is amazing... They are 10-20 years behind but everyone assumes they are 10 to 20 years ahead....if only real live was as cool as the movies.
I might not be so angry if it were not for my interactions with Sarina Ames and Chad Aldrich on Bainbridge Island. After my divorce in 2007, I made a mental note of all the spies' names I had ever heard of. Oddly enough, many high-profile spy names appeared on mail boxes all over Kitsap County. It looks like a retirement pasture for international spies. No less disturbing is Bond Road between Kingston and Poulsbo. James Bond, the film character? It just keeps getting weirder all the time. The James Bond that our K.C. road was named after is really from Australia, the infamous British penal colony.
I can't believe: Maria Rosario Casas Dupuy it's actually in this moment my Literature teacher in the Javeriana University, and she's the wife of him. I see her everyday. And she appears in the recording 😮
@@Korn1holio very hard for some to grasp. Morality in politics? No. In espionage, yes. Gordievsky = spy with morals, moral spying. ol Rick here? Should have been a politician. Nothing moral in what he was doing, straight greed!
@@petersproul8988 spies flip for multiple reason, including political ideology (e.g Poleokov). Greed is just 1 motivation. The source of the motivation, doesn't make the act of treason any less immoral.
Jesus Christ what kind of microphones did they use to for this??? I can hear every little mouth sound and breathing sound. I feel like I can literally hear his mustache hairs against his lip. I can hear their eyelids slap shit. I’ve had to rewatch 3 times cause I keep getting distracted by the sound of their blood circulating.
And his supporters (who number around roughly 40% of US adults) deem him "more patriotic" than the other politicians! If I was a public figure/politician, I would LOVE to have that kind of fanaticism propelling me! 🤣🤣🤣
@@mrconfusion87 Chump's hard core is really only about 20%. He got the vote in 2016 largely as a protest vote. He attracts the portion of the population who always wanted to be assholes but felt like they had to live in the closet. Give it a few more years and the rest of us will put them right back into the closet where they belong.
Cold War, Ted Turner produced it in the late 90s narrated by Kenneth Brannaugh. If I recall correctly, it was on at Sundays at 8:00 (maybe on CNN but not sure) and the HBO showed Sopranos at 9:00 EST.
I agree that here in the U.S., our government and judicial system is to lenient on this sort of thing. In such cases similar to that of Robert Hanssen and Aldrich Ames, there should be no plea bargains. Under such circumstances and incriminating evidence, there should be a full trial and if found guilty, it should be mandatory death sentence. That would send a clear message to anyone else thinking about betraying our country and selling our secrets.
Ames is just like the FBI spy Robert Hanssen. It really wasn't about the money. not really. Ames, like Hanssen, had very low self esteem. Ames wanted to be a success. Being a very damaging spy for the Soviets was Ames' path to celebrity, to success. After that, it was self justification, just like with Hanssen. Wolf Blitzer asked Ames about his Soviet handlers. Quote from Ames, referring to his feelings for the Soviets: "Respect, admiration, you could say affection.They're good people."
Ames' glibness is infuriating. Props to everyone who helped bring him in.
"Hello fellow CIA agents." says the dude clothed in Armani, driving a Jaguar.
thats suspect right there, all kinds of sketchy eh ? 😙
Ames compares himself to the brave Soviet agents of the CIA who, he said, only did the same as him. He admits folly and greed were his motivation but that was not the case of the CIA's Soviet agents. They were risking their lives to try and change the world for the better. Ames got them killed, as he admits. No words to describe him.
Exactly this is the diffrence
They did their job as the law of the agancy that they work at it but ames didnt did the same
And the agents they named would be deported. The agents he named were murdered.
You sure they weren't risking their lives for money?
Even soldiers risk their lives and sell their ass back and brain for money. What planet are you on?
@@marco252005 ideology was why the Soviets did what they did.. money was why Ames did what he did.. in the case of Hanssen he took a lot of money but it was more important for him to be heard..and to this day what Robert Hanssen sold damaging this country a lot of it is still classified.. Same goes for John Anthony Walker that was greed exemplified
General Polyakov deserves a statue in the Capitol. Perhaps somewhere close to The Lincoln Memorial. General Polyakov didn't do it for money, he helped The United States because he believed in it and the individual freedoms it's citizens enjoyed. He wanted the same for The Russian people. He is a Hero of The United States and every member of his family who wishes to live here should be given citizenship and easy lives. Hopefully some already have.
Nice comment and I totally agree!
yeah, i would gladly accept an option besides being disappeared ... yes indeed 😳
look how the US turned out to be.
@@TewodrosBaye1 It is no different than it was in the time of rhe founders when Jeffersons democratic- Republicans were using the media to turn public opinion against Hamiltons Federalists. In fact it can be argued that the vitriolic nature of the media then was even more nasty than it is today.
Of course it would be ideal if all Americans were inn harmony and the heath of the republic was more important to everyone than the health and stability of one's party but the impulse by some to see anyone who's ideas are different than their own as malicious and will use this impulse to justify their own bad intentions.
It would be a wonderful utopia if we could be like the Russians with no parties or factions would it not?
Or is it better if not always perfect that we let our party minded people cancel eachother out in and endless struggle against eachother while the judiciary prevents majority rules and checks and balances keeps their factional war from affecting those of us who simply wish to harness those people to the political realm where their struggle for power against eachother keeps them too busy to turn their desire for power against the population.
You'd be surprised how little we've changed since the Founding and I'm glad of it.
We should be allowed to prosper while our political class is busy beating their heads against eachother.
I consider myself a Federalist at heart. I vote republican for president but Democrat for congress so there will be a chain on power in both the legislature and the executive. If a Democrat beats my candidate for president I always change my midterm votes from Democrat in the house and senate to republican. It is our duty as citizens to always put the country first by making sure neither party has enough power to infringe my access to success or my want to be left alone to profit. It has always worked and still does.
We are without wanting too be global hegemon. It's time we went back to the intentions of the founders and isolated ourselves from the rest of the world's problems. We should always look inward and direct our power inward to strengthen ourselves and stop wasting our resources and blood for the sake of foreigners.
We should tend to the five eyes alliance of course as strengthening the Anglo Saxon alliance between the five Anglo Saxon nations is to our mutual benefit. We should abandon all others as outside our culture and not in our interests to protect unless they offer something in return. Ukraine for instance. If they were to offer us drilling rights we should protect them. If not what gain to us?
We are fine and always will be. I only get nervous when the two parties are not fighting echother. A government set against itself under rules directed by The Supreme Court is a perfect system. A government in perfect harmony is to able to interfere in the business of the people...the true sovereigns.
Kim Philby spied for CCCP out of beliefs - was he a hero?
I'd love to know how he managed to walk into the Soviet embassy without being detected 🤔
Aldrich Ames was head of counterintelligence against the Soviets in the CIA. The CIA desperately needed Soviet officials to defect and serve as double agents but the security in Moscow was tighter than ever. Being the head of that department, he simply said: "I'll be going to the Soviet embassy to cultivate a new source" (as in new official to help us) or something like that. Just like that, no one suspected him as many Soviet officials working for them in the past came from embassies.
He was being detected, even more funny he was there with the blessing of the CIA allegedly cultivating a possible source.He hid in plain sight used this CIA-operation to make a Faustian-pact
He time traveled
He did what the agency expected him to do as far as counter intelligence.. until he sold not only his soul but the soul's of the American people and the Soviets that knew that the USSR was run by shit..
One foot in front of the other, I believe.
Foolish guy.....depositing his ill-gotten money in his bank account.
Thanks him for that! He was stupid enough to betray US for the Soviet Union, why he would be stupid enough to put money in his bank account? Because of him a lot of people were executed!!!
No remorse, few regrets, no empathy for the men he killed. He’s a sociopath.
its war so whatever
He’s far more than that!
A greedy materialistic wife brought him down
The CIA and KGB weren't the same. Polyakov was tortured for three years and executed by the KGB while Ames got life in a decent prison and gave interviews. I lived through communism and our life was so hard I would have gladly traded it for prison in America. You can see the difference between the KGB and the CIA in this video: the terrified face of a man of steel and the self sufficient demeanor of a coward.
Oh you're wrong. The CIA did and does plenty of "KGB" methods. They just keep their facade better. The KGB has no reason to pretend.
LOL they torture people constantly
Nah, it’s just because he’s an American citizen. In Latin America, Southeast Asia, Middle East, it’s all fair games.
You are writing a gigantic pile of horse shit! Life in the USSR wasn’t at all tough in the 1980’s. Anyone who wanted a job could get one and the salary was always enough to pay for all of life’s necessities! The system was fair and rewarded hard work and genuine effort! It’s a system that produced the worlds best scientists and engineers! The brain drain didn’t happen for no reason!
@@PRubin-rh4srHelped by the Hollyweird propaganda apparatus!
Same old story. Once Ames started receiving "payments' (blood money), he started living far beyond his means. Had he maintained his cool and status quo, who knows.
What dream world are you living in? Working for practically any government organization means you're recieving blood money, especially the CIA.
The wife should spend the rest of her life in prison as her Traitor husband because she knows what her husband was doing all the while.
What if he told her she will die if better shut close her mth
I AGREE.
Ames was motivated by money, not any ideological beliefs, a fact which many people find repugnent about the man.
Steve Anon This is true
As opposed to Soros, Madoff and hundreds of other American professionals not driven by greed? Wake up and look at where you live. Your nation is founded upon greed
@@medved4030 you do know George Soros was a Hungarian who helped Nazis exterminate his own people right?
But just to be sure I’m clear, these people he betrayed were breaking Soviet laws. And Ames was practicing free speech in the USA
@@medved4030 True
What this film clip didn't show was how they narrowed down the list of possible moles in the CIA, Jeanne Vertefeuille had asked the team members who bothered them most and why. Then give a score for each person on the list. Aldrich Ames topped the list. I've heard him described by others as a sociopath, which is kind of the hartless person it would take to send people to their deaths for money.
I mean, he has the look and demeanor of a cheese-eating rat ...
He works as a spy and deposits money in his bank account. Where do they find these people? LOL
More importantly, where do they find the counterintelligence teams that takes years to catch him?
@@mitchjohnson4714 takes years to build a solid case on someone trained to hide information and keep secrets. They knew they had their man from day one of the investigation.
@@marco252005 It's not that they couldn't build a case. It's that they couldn't even find him. He wasn't even psychologically qualified.
Props to this man for showing how ridiculous polygraph tests are.
A lot of jobs still require it unfortunately
It was later revealed that the test did indicate deception but was mishandled by examiners.
General Polyakov was a decorated hero fully loyal to the USSR. When he was working in the US, his newborn son got ill. He needed an operation worth 400 dollars, which Polyakov didn’t have. He formally asked his superiors for money, they thought about it for 3 months and refused; his son died shortly afterwards. After retiring he was offered a way to escape to the US when it became clear that double agents are being arrested, but refused, saying that he didn’t do it for Americans or himself, he did it to help his own country.
That's a fascinating story, thanks for telling it.
You're mad
The story is not completely accurate. His son apparently got Polio in NY C in the summer which at the time was not that unusual. Polyakov wanted this son to go to some US clinic specialising in such cases. THe Russian embassy would not allow it and I think wanted him treated in Moscow (which would have meant splitting up the family). I'm not sure about the costs you mention they seem very small by today's US medical numbers but perhaps that was correct for the late 1950s.
@@acmebrainsurgery it's true.. he was offered a way out for him and his family multiple times and declined.. and the sad part of that was when the soviet union fell his family did just that.. and fled to the United States..as the whereabouts of Polyakov's remains ( ashes) remain unknown
That’s horse shit!
Even in prison, with no hope of freedom, Ames is a pathological liar and rationalizes his choices.
Did you even watch this? You may disagree with his rationalization but he didn’t lie. He admits and explains exactly what he did.
Lol ur mad
That's me
The man said he did it for greed what more do you want 😂
What did he lie about in this?
If you want to know the whole story about Oleg Gordievsky, read 'the spy and the traitor' by Ben Macintyre
one of the best books I've ever read. Could not put it down! Gordievsky's story is AMAZING!
Just finished it and best book I’ve ever read
I can only echo the previous two comments. One of the most captivating and intriguing books I’ve ever had the pleasure to read.
@BHAKTIBROPHY
You're right about Polyakov. He could have went to America and lived out the rest of his days but he said "I didn't do this for America I did this for Russia and Russia is where I will stay." And he knew he would very likely be executed.
He felt that the U.S. was naive in some ways and that they would lose the Cold War to the USSR and that would give unchecked power to Russia's corrupt leaders and ultimately the Russian people would suffer even more. Someone can love their country and dislike the leaders at the same time. He loved his country. Fucking Ames is just the a rat. He could have given intel for money and protected individuals as much as possible, Polyakov was more careful in that respect. Ames has no redeeming qualities whatsoever.
Some suggest that Polyakov's sons death may have been the catalyst for his decision to go to the FBI. His son had a very deadly and rare disease and the worlds leading specialist was in NYC. The KGB refused to let him take his son to the US for treatment. He felt they put politics ahead of the needs of citizens. His son died no long after.
redeeming qualities good words and of one man who changed the coarse of history paid though with his life. The other a plain ole' scumbag.
His son committed suicide shortly after his arrest.
@@mikaelivanov8832 right 🤔 wow
If you have a rental property, the city comes through every 3 years to make sure the building is still up to code. The system needs to employ cyclic background checks every 5 years or so to ensure everyone still rates their clearance, and not try to explain away the results. If so, they would have seen Ames couldn't explain his lifestyle. Guys like Ames and Pollard should have been weeded out and dismissed early in their careers due to red flags.
THAT IS A VERY WISE N OBVIOUS SUGGESTION. I WONDER WHY THE CIA N FBI HAVE NOT THOUGHT OF THAT.
It's weird that many people think life in prison without parole is better than death sentence! They probably are after living at any price! I prefer to die rather than life sentence in a cell!
might help if they pay their spies at least enough to afford a dentist
+peter robins prolly because drug addictions
Well if the spy’s gave not enough money maybe they should work as caregivers !
The Spy and the Traitor is a great book. Should be made into a movie. Literal goosebumps all the way.
Who is the author?
@@CheezeTank I think Ben MacIntyre.
The dentist should be spying on that womans teeth.
He Signs his Christmas Cards "Treason's Greetings"!
No amount of money, not a million, and not a billion is worth betraying yourself, family, and your country.
I bet 1 minute of freedom, 1 day away from jail is worth much more than the pathetic 2million he made.
You don't expect the person in charge of an operation of this magnitude to look like your sweet little grandma who brings you cookies every Sunday
damnnn 😙
This is amazing. Ames buys a car worth more than his yearly salary and lives in way too expensive house and the rocket scientists at the CIA finally think. “Gee maybe this means something?” Keystone cops.
He failed 2 lie detector tests as well
I grew up in Arlington Virginia less than a mile away from Ames' home and drove by it hundreds of times when visiting my best friend. He has red shudders, the color of the USSR, ha ha.
That's probably the most interesting thing I've heard all day.
I shudder at the thought of what you wrote.
watching that bloke smerking at the camera is realy sickining
Meh. Why. Spying is a game. Traitors are traitors and if they get caught, they deserve to die
Ames is right. All of the people he had killed, had previously had people killed. So get off your high horse.
Charles McFadden and the one who gave Aldrich up betrayed his country.
Ames still oozing arrogance even behind bars
Charles McFadden no you idiot. You said that Aldrich betrayed his country the Russian spy did the same when he gave names.
His dad was in the agency and he was a legacy.
The people who found him knew him.
So you mean to tell me that just after the general and countless assets we’re carted off we didn’t immediately check everyone’s bank account in CI. That’s crazy everyone’s bank account should have been checked immediately.
It really makes me physically sick that this guy wasn't given the death penalty shortly after his capture and they had gotten all the information they could from him
Especially because he’s a raging, unapologetic narcissist
Or left to rot in a cell with no human contact
TOTALLY AGREE!!!
It amazes me how he is explaining why he did what he did. By saying "I did the same" is, in this context of what he did, just unbelievable. 8:50 It is horrific, this can only come from a very twisted mind and unempathic soul.
He is so confident in his evil ideas, even not realizing that is not the same to be judged as a traitor by KGB, to get a death sentence in 1 month, or to be judged by USA where you can get life and give interviews have a good food and health Insirance!
The KGB traitors knew what game they were playing. They can blame themselves. Play stupid games - win stupid prizes. The end.
Most spies of this type are major league narcissists.
@@Michael-it6gb Enemies of Communism, the USSR and Moscow are heroes and you are going to prison.
If this was in medieval England,Ames would have been hanged drawn and quartered
The Aldridge Ames doesn't sound sorry but feels like a person who achieved something. Utterly devastating.
Sad that the old man thought he was retired safe and happy in Russia to be sentenced to execution in his old age.
And yet compared to Ames, he didn’t do for money, but for the change of life Russians’ people!
@@liliivanova2920
Which makes Ames an even worse assXXck
@@liliivanova2920 how do you know? Maybe the money was good?
@@marco252005 it was saying that he did not like the soviets! And yet looks like he did make enough money !
@@liliivanova2920 he loved his country and ppl not the government and leaders
How could he live with himself...
HE HAS NO CONSCIENCE, THAT IS WHY HE CAN LIVE IN PRISON FOR LIFE.
Polyakov did it for integrity, Ames did it for ego boosting and money.
He'd been through an ugly divorce and needed money to maintain his perception of his own status.
There is no honor in Espionage
His ego is a case study in itself.
Thakns for upload. I just end to read a book about Ames writen by Pater Maas and now I will like to watch some documentary about him. Best regards.
I'm responding to you after 9 year's to tell you that you will find little to nothing specifically dedicated to Ames exclusively..
At first Ames says that the reason for selling secrets was simple greed and folly. Then he changes the story as he picks up the excuse that some of the guys he betrayed "did it too". Yeah, so he doesn't think the US is any different from the USSR, and the video ends well by pointing out he's alive behind bars whereas Poliakov got a bullet in the head.
gfexc Really? Go tell it to the Hungarians and the Poles and the Romanians and the Latvians and the Lithuanians and the Estonians and the Germans and the Czechs. What a genuinely vapid ass you are.
Michael White You forgot the Koreans (propped of north korea worst country ever except Middle east ones) and the Ukrainians (holodomor and a million other things like its current invasion) and Georgians (Invasion, split up of the country
+Daisy Scotland and MH17 passengers
and the list goes on and on...
AMES IS A SHAMELESS ANIMAL.
ames sure the hell looks happy and proud.
HE IS SOULESS. BECAUSE HE HAD SOLD HIS SOUL TO SATAN.
movie captured the Ames family and their greed to an amazing degree,
I really wonder that he first made contact by walking into the soviet embassy. I would have though during the Cold War the soviet embassy would have been observed 24/7.
John Walker of the US Navy did the same thing, he walked into the Soviet Embassy and sold top secret documents to the enemy.
Sure it was part of his role to liaise with the Soviets so not unusual.
Terrible human being. He does not have any remorse.
There's nothing you can do about it. You realize something is very wrong, and you fight yourself. Some thoughts become like, "OMG."
Aldrich Ames is such a slimy guy...difference between him and Soviet spies he gave up is they ended up dead, he's happy doing pompous interviews
Spying is one of the sleaziest but necessary functions of a nation. We're outraged when Ames betrayed his country and gave up a bunch of names of people that we had paid and / or convinced to betray their country.
The outrage is justified,
@@jonhohensee3258Nah! Traitors are traitors! It does NOT matter where they come from or who paid them! 🤣🤣🤣
@@mrconfusion87 Hunh???
The 10 men Ames snitched to with the KGB led directly to their deaths. Ames could not get the death penalty since it was not enforce for espionage during peacetime then. Ames knew this. Ames betrayed this country for money. General Polyakov aided the US because he saw the destruction to the citizens of USSR by Communism and the KGB. Ames is an arrogant weasel.
A traitor is still a traitor
with all that cash they could have sorted themselves some decent glasses
is it just me...or do most of these agents have really bad teeth???
What a terrible person
doing all of this for money GREED evil and disgusting how he doesn't regret it
I wonder what Ames's immediate relatives think of him ?
I THINK ALL OF THEM R ASHAME OF HIM.
So people on the other side they are just agents not a traitors!!!!?????
yes, like ames was a russian agent, but an American traitor. It depends on where you stand.
Russian agents who betray Russia ARE good because they work against an evil system. American agents who betray America are BAD because they are working against a good system. I can't believe I had to explain this to you.
Even though the Russian guy is on his way to death he can't help but grin at the ridiculous measures being taken to embarrass him like putting him in a headlock like hes friggin doomguy or somethin.
Guess they're concerned he'll swallow a pill or something
@@Zetunez This is correct.
@@Zetunez exactly
Wow this guy makes me sick. He's so flippant and smug, playing with people's lives so he could get rich. The soviets who defected were trying to save their country and save their families.
I'm a bit surprised they gave Aldrich Ames the chance to do an interview. I'm glad they did tho cause it's intriguing. Robert Hanssen on other hand committed similar crimes w/ the same gravity, and he's buried alive in total solitude and obscurity. Like he exists but at the same time he doesnt.
ADX Florence supermax. A who’s who list of famous criminals. El Chapo, Unabomber, Al Qaeda leaders, spies, World Trade Center bomber (the first bombing in the 90s) just imagine the stories those guys could share if they all sat together. Wow
@@misterceo2168 Free El Chapo!!!! As far as the rest of em keep em in
@@misterceo2168 And IMO Tsarnaev shouldn't be there tho or meet the DP .. serve life elsewhere certainly. His older brother put him up to all that shit & he was young (although technically an adult) yet he was so subservient to his older bro Tam to a level that he could've told him anything and he'd do it. He lacked the penchant, motive, and malignant ideology within him for that type of crime. I wish it was the other way around with him & his bro Tam in terms of where they are at now
@@shaheedharun445 you black? If so why u say free the Mexican only?
@@misterceo2168 No I'm an Albino Nigerian born in Japan but raised in Peru by my adoptive Scotch parents. Now I live in Bangladesh
I wonder how this guy looks now, after 23 years since the interview.. 23 years in prison, damn
No better than the day he went in .. I just want to read that he's dead...
What job is he doing now? His security clearance is jacked
For such a cocky chap who thinks he's some double "0" agent; he doesn't quite grasp that he was caught and will die in prison.
So I guess both countries had all the info on each other.
Oleg Gordievsky spied on principle, on idiological grounds.
Amess spied because he wanted a bigger car. Oleg is the very best of us
Polyakov turned on his government because he cared about his people and the way they were mistreated, Ames turned on his government because he cared about his bank account and the things money could buy.
A rat is a rat
Stop trying to justify treachery. No matter which way you look at things, they committed the same act. The motivation doesn't matter to the people they've fucked over.
Damn Ames is so brutally honest
Blunt Australian what excuses is he making
His illusions have all been stripped away. He is left only with the truth.
Don't confuse honesty with arrogance.. Ames is the latter...
" For reasons I considered sufficient..." Money, money, money...
Laughable how all these sociopaths justify their actions with basically "the reasons i did it were fine by me" like yeah buddy as if you're qualified to set the standard. Absolute monster
Or atleast, that was the reason that Polyakov gave. If it was his real reason is ofcourse unknown. And yes, both men deserved what they got and knew well what were the consequences of their actions if they were found out.
Hi, just wanted to know what the source was for this footage? Was it filmed by ABC? Thank you!
CNN Cold War series. Spies Episode
the funny thing im a double agent and im watching this .lool
If you listen closely you clue into the reality that the intelligent services are way behind the curve when it comes to technology. One example, "he was reading the bank statements and I was entering them into the computer" (manually!) It is amazing... They are 10-20 years behind but everyone assumes they are 10 to 20 years ahead....if only real live was as cool as the movies.
How is this man still alive
That guys smugness is a Disgusting
Shows how inept the CIA was at least back in the 80s. How can they not detect one of their own not openly going into the Soviet embassy.
why he still alive ???
Ames...puts illegal money in his personal checking account???
This dude living it up in prison with his hands behind his head. Kicking up his legs lol
If anyone deserves a pair of goofy government-issue glasses its this guy.
I am shocked that he is even showing his face in this. Treason.
Lisa Longo hes a selfish fuck
Is this from a Documentary? What is it from? Are there other parts of this on youtube? someone please help!
He makes me sick!
I might not be so angry if it were not for my interactions with Sarina Ames and Chad Aldrich on Bainbridge Island. After my divorce in 2007, I made a mental note of all the spies' names I had ever heard of. Oddly enough, many high-profile spy names appeared on mail boxes all over Kitsap County. It looks like a retirement pasture for international spies. No less disturbing is Bond Road between Kingston and Poulsbo. James Bond, the film character? It just keeps getting weirder all the time. The James Bond that our K.C. road was named after is really from Australia, the infamous British penal colony.
Aye
this guy was being interviewed for this? That's insane
right I was really surprised that he wasn't in jail
oh so he was just able to talk to them from jail
I can't believe: Maria Rosario Casas Dupuy it's actually in this moment my Literature teacher in the Javeriana University, and she's the wife of him. I see her everyday. And she appears in the recording 😮
so he gave up guys who did the same as he did then?
only the guys he gave up were shot. The guys that those guys gave up were put in prison. A small difference of being left alive, you know.
@@Korn1holio very hard for some to grasp. Morality in politics? No. In espionage, yes. Gordievsky = spy with morals, moral spying. ol Rick here? Should have been a politician. Nothing moral in what he was doing, straight greed!
@@petersproul8988 spies flip for multiple reason, including political ideology (e.g Poleokov). Greed is just 1 motivation. The source of the motivation, doesn't make the act of treason any less immoral.
Morality does NOT exist in geopolitics (despite what some people would want you to believe)! 🤣🤣🤣
Jesus Christ what kind of microphones did they use to for this??? I can hear every little mouth sound and breathing sound. I feel like I can literally hear his mustache hairs against his lip. I can hear their eyelids slap shit. I’ve had to rewatch 3 times cause I keep getting distracted by the sound of their blood circulating.
Really briliant guy...
Imagine being Zogged to the degree Ames has been….he thinks he just got caught, it’s all just spy vs spy he thinks….he got Zog-ged
Yikes Sandy, dem teeth!
Why is he still alive.this is crazy
He must have known if he was caught he wouldn't face the death penalty , but the names he gave up definitely did face the death penalty
@sabram24 but on one thing he was damn right: This IS nasty business. Ones hero is other traitor...
Watching after reading “the soviet and the spy”
My god read it!!!
4:32 how interesting that she refers to Ames by his nickname, 'Rick'.
MAYBE THAT WAS THE NICKNAME OF AMES WHEN HE WAS NOT YET EXPOSED AS THE SPY. SO BY HABIT SHE CALLS HER THAT NAME.
Funny, an American just like Ames got elected to the White House. Funny how history unfolds.
And his supporters (who number around roughly 40% of US adults) deem him "more patriotic" than the other politicians! If I was a public figure/politician, I would LOVE to have that kind of fanaticism propelling me! 🤣🤣🤣
@@mrconfusion87 Chump's hard core is really only about 20%. He got the vote in 2016 largely as a protest vote. He attracts the portion of the population who always wanted to be assholes but felt like they had to live in the closet. Give it a few more years and the rest of us will put them right back into the closet where they belong.
what documentary is this from?
This one th-cam.com/video/bf2sInfLqDY/w-d-xo.html
Cold War, Ted Turner produced it in the late 90s narrated by Kenneth Brannaugh. If I recall correctly, it was on at Sundays at 8:00 (maybe on CNN but not sure) and the HBO showed Sopranos at 9:00 EST.
Thanks God it was caught.
on my own James Bond and Mission Impossible movies
I agree that here in the U.S., our government and judicial system is to lenient on this sort of thing. In such cases similar to that of Robert Hanssen and Aldrich Ames, there should be no plea bargains. Under such circumstances and incriminating evidence, there should be a full trial and if found guilty, it should be mandatory death sentence. That would send a clear message to anyone else thinking about betraying our country and selling our secrets.
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I AGREE.
That's against international law: the death penalty can only be used for murder convictions.
@@carlkamuti Had you not noticed how much the Americans like killing each other - preferably en masse?
I wonder if Ames played any role in the Buran Space Shuttles development.
My Gruncle was a kgb agent in 1965
What's gruncle?
I can't believe Aldrich betrayed the CIA.
Betrayed the whole fucking country
@@Flashguy9000 Phoenix 2-4, this is Phoenix 2-1. 30 seconds out.
@@MaverickSolo_115 we’re up mason
@@Flashguy9000 Locked and loaded.
Ames is just like the FBI spy Robert Hanssen. It really wasn't about the money. not really. Ames, like Hanssen, had very low self esteem. Ames wanted to be a success. Being a very damaging spy for the Soviets was Ames' path to celebrity, to success. After that, it was self justification, just like with Hanssen. Wolf Blitzer asked Ames about his Soviet handlers. Quote from Ames, referring to his feelings for the Soviets: "Respect, admiration, you could say affection.They're good people."
HE PLACED MORE IMPORTANCE TO FEELING GOOD THAN HIS OBLIGATION TO SERVE HIS COUNTRY FAITHFULLY.