1994. The arrest of Aldrich Eims

25 years ago, on February 21, 1994, the former head of the CIA counterintelligence unit, the head of the Soviet department of the external counterintelligence of the CIA Oldrich Aims, who had been an agent of Soviet and Russian intelligence was arrested in Arlington. According to various sources, he failed from 10 to 25 American agents in the ranks of the KGB and GRU.

The official reason for the failure is Aims's excessive expenses that did not coincide with his income, which paid attention to the FBI, who began the audit of employees in connection with the frequent failures of agents in Russia. So, Aims bought a house in Washington’s vicinity for 540 thousand dollars in cash, purchased a farm and two apartments in the name of his wife, bought an expensive jaguar car and luxury items for $ 455 thousand.

On April 28, 1994, Oldrich Aims was sentenced to life imprisonment with property confiscation. He is serving a sentence in a particularly strict regime of Allenwood in the state of Pennsylvania.