Ex-CIA agent convicted of spying for Soviets dies in prison

He was 84, according to the Bureau of Prisons. Ames worked as a counterintelligence analyst for the CIA for 31 years and, along with his wife Rosario, was convicted of selling information to the Soviet Union between 1985 and 1993 -- compromising secret missions and costing lives -- in exchange for more than $2.5 million. Ames had been head of the Soviet branch in the CIA's counterintelligence group, and gave the Kremlin the names of dozens of Russians who were spying for the United States. The...