Traitor - Aldrich Ames

True Crimecast

Stove Leg Media

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

In this gripping episode of True Crimecast, Jamie and John unravel the chilling story of Aldrich Ames, a CIA insider who became one of the most devastating traitors in American intelligence history. Unlike the cinematic spy villains of fiction, Ames was a quiet bureaucrat who leveraged his position, knowledge, and the CIA’s own blind spots to sell secrets to the Soviet Union—secrets that led to the deaths of at least 10 U.S. operatives. Listen and explore how Ames gained access, why he did it, and how he stayed hidden for nearly a decade while living a life of luxury funded by betrayal. This is not just a tale of espionage—it’s a haunting reminder of what happens when loyalty is traded for cash, and when the perfect insider becomes the ultimate threat.

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0:00.0	Stoveleg Media
0:02.6	Igniting Conversation
0:04.4	This is True Crime cast.
0:26.4	Jamie, as always, joined by my co-host, John.
0:30.5	What's up?
0:31.3	Dude.
0:32.1	How are you, man?
0:33.1	I'm doing great.
0:34.4	It's, we usually open up talking about the weather. Things are blooming, and I'm feeling it. Let me just leave it like that. Allergies, bro. I'm taking so many medicine. I'm not feeling it, but my entire family is. Apparently like, there's a lot out there. My car is not naturally yellow, but it's been yellow from pollen. It has a golden hue.
0:54.9	I'll say that.
0:58.7	I haven't been able to mow my yard in a few days because of all the rain.
1:00.6	So I'm hitching to do that soon.
1:01.9	And it grows so fast.
1:03.7	It's a catch-22 when it rains.
1:04.8	That's not what I mean. It's just doubly bad because it grows fast, any can mow.
1:07.8	Yeah. I love mowing my yard more than anything and not being able to is just, sometimes I just go
1:12.7	there and look at it and long for it.
1:15.0	That sounds cute.
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