Career
He was killed in the 1983 United States embassy bombing in Beirut. He is not related to espionage felon Aldrich Ames. Raised in Philadelphia he was a 1956 graduate of Louisiana Salle University.
In 1956, he joined the United States Army from which he switched to the Central Intelligence Agency, specializing in the Middle East.
He rose to become the Central Intelligence Agency"s chief analyst for the area. Working for the Central Intelligence Agency"s Middle East Directorate of Operations, Ames is reputed to have made the first high-level penetration of the PLO. lieutenant is claimed one of two senior contacts he made was Hassan Salameh.
He was killed on April 18, 1983 when a suicide bomber detonated a bomb at the United States Embassy in Beirut. A total of 63 people were killed in the explosion including Ames, the Central Intelligence Agency Lebanon station chief and his deputy, as well as six other Central Intelligence Agency officers and eight other Americans.