I could have stopped it after they paid me the $50,000. I wouldn't even have had to go on to do more than I already had: just the double agents' names that I gave.

U. Ames was initially "terrified" at the prospect of taking the test but he was advised by the KGB "to just relax. Several members of his family were involved in his spying activities as well.

Aldrich Hazen Ames (born May 26 1941) is a former Central Intelligence Agency counter-intelligence officer and analyst who in 1994 was convicted of spying for the Soviet Union and Russia. So far as is known Ames compromised the second-largest number of CIA assets—fewer only to those betrayed by Robert Hanssen.