Overview
- The U.S. Bureau of Prisons confirmed Ames's death on January 5, according to reports citing its response to an inquiry.
- Authorities have not disclosed the cause of death or other circumstances.
- Ames was sentenced to life in 1994 for espionage on behalf of the USSR and Russia.
- U.S. media have reported that his spying compromised more than 100 CIA operations and led to the executions of at least 10 Soviet assets.
- He worked at the CIA for more than three decades and was reported to have spied for Moscow for over nine years.