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- 01Ames was paid over $2.7 million by the KGB — the largest cash sum ever paid to an American spy.
- 02The CIA noticed that Soviet assets were being rolled up en masse in 1985 but spent nine years attributing the losses to a technical breach, not a mole.
- 03His wife, Rosario Ames, was also convicted — she had known of his espionage and was sentenced to five years.