UNIDENTIFIED CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): CIA official Aldrich Ames and his wife were ordered held without bail on charges of selling U.S. intelligence secrets to the Soviets and later the Russians over a nine-year period that ended with their arrest on Monday.</s>WOLF BLITZER, CNN WASHINGTON ANCHOR: He had spent nine years providing the Soviet Union and later Russia with the most sensitive information that compromised dozens of U.S. assets inside the Soviet Union and Russia and resulted in the deaths of about a dozen agents that the U.S. had.</s>UNIDENTIFIED CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): An FBI affidavit says the couple was paid more than $1.5 million in exchange for information about CIA operations and personnel.</s>BLITZER: What tipped off the agency was the lavish lifestyle, the expensive house that he bought in Northern Virginia, the Jaguar, the trips. The overall life he was leading was not compatible with his salary and some of his colleagues were raising questions.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Certainly not the first person you would think of as a high roller or someone that would take such risks to his honor, to his dignity, and to his family.</s>BLITZER: What makes someone betray your country and expose those kinds of secrets for money, knowing that the information you are giving is going to result in the death, the execution of agents and assets that the U.S. had.
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