MEETING WITH PAT LYNCH, NBC NEWS

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MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
SUBJECT: Meeting with Pat Lynch, NBC News
1. Ms. Lynch called on 18 October and said she would be in Washington
and would like to get together.
2. On 21 October she called again and it was arranged that she would
come to my office on 22 October at 3:00 p.m. for an off-the-record tour
d'horizon on the functions and modus operandi of the Agency's Public Affairs
Office. We do this for most major media representatives. She said she had no
stories she was pursuing related to the Agency and just wanted to get
acquainted.
3. I did my usual dog and pony show, emphasizing the need to work with
the network on protecting sources and methods and affirming that we do not
deal in classified information. I asked that she call whenever there are any
sources or methods questions and we will attempt to sort any problems which
appear to be arising.
4. The conversation then turned to other things. Lynch said that while
doing the NBC story on Shadrin, she had grown to admire him. She asked if we
had any information re Shadrin's death, noting that Mrs. Shadrin had
remarried. I said it seemed to me that Mrs. Shadrin must think he is dead if
she remarried and that the signs would seem to point that way. She said that
she would like to give Shadrin a fitting sendoff on the tube. I said I
couldn't help her in any way on that. I noted that the case was an FBI case
and not an Agency one and that she would have to go to them or possibly to the
Department of State for any information on Shadrin.
5. Somewhere in the conversation she mentioned the press and TV reports
stating that there were USG officials other than Howard named by Yurchenko as
being Soviet agents, one being an Agency officer and the other an NSA
representative. She asked if there was anything I could say about these
stories. I replied that I had seen the stories too, but that we hadn't and
wouldn't comment; these are matters under investigation by the Justice
Department. There had been recent media stories that some announcements might
be made by Justice within the near future but only Justice knew what it was
going to do. If there is to be comment, it must come from Justice. She asked
if the second CIA officer was still an Agency employee. I replied that I was
not aware of any investigation in the Agency of active officers for complicity
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with Howard. However, the FBI is handling the Howard investigation and she
would have to ask it. She commented that that must mean this unidentified
officer is an ex-employee and simply helped Howard after he left the Agency.
She asked if the CIA officer had dealt directly with the Soviets. I replied
that I was unaware of any Soviet espionage cases connected with the Howard
case other than the Howard case itself. This again is an FBI problem. I
emphasized the "mole in CIA' stories are garbage to the best of our knowledge
and that she would be incorrect if she pursued this angle. I asked Lynch to
let me know if anyone confirmed to her the existence of a second CIA employee
in the Howard case.
STAT 6. Lynch talked to _of my office the next day, 23 October, and
said that she wanted me to know that she "has confirmed to her satisfaction
the existence of the second employee, that he was a CIA employee and that he
is no longer with the Agency. She has not be able to ascertain his name or
what ties he had with Howard. Does the Agency have any guidance on or off the
STAT record?" "No," 0 responded. Lynch subsequently called me on
24 October to tell me that Bernie McMahon, Staff Director of the SSCI, was the
STAT sou he information that she had provided In addition to what she
SIAI toln,wor she said she had confirmed that the CIA officer was low
leved with Howard and was out of the Agency. Lynch also said that a
former FBI officer with whom she had worked on the original Shadrin story had
told her that KGB defector Yurchenko has said that Shadrin was chloroformed
and killed accidently after he was kidnapped by the KGB in Vienna. She wants
to run with that story on Monday Night News. Is it true?" The answer was,
"Cannot help." We referred her to Justice.
7. Yesterday, 28 October, David Holliday, SSCI Staff and Press Officer,
called to exchange information on what journalists were up to. He asked how
the Agency was reacting to Durenberger's statements over the weekend. I
replied they had created a stir. We discussed Pat Lynch's efforts with
respect to Shadrin. I said that I understood she was going to run the Shadrin
story last night (Monday) on the NBC Evening News. (She did.) That brought
us to the ex-CIA employee problem. Holliday said that Lynch had told him that
she had talked to me and that I had told her about the second CIA man. He
said he had thought that that was the story which the NBC Evening News was
going to run last night. I gave Holliday the essence of my dealings with
Lynch per the above. I advised him that I had not given her the identity of
the second officer and apparently neither had Bernie McMahon. I added that it
was my impression that Lynch had not acquired the identity of the second CIA
officer from anyone else either since she would instantly break the story on
the NBC Evening News the moment she acquired such data and nothing has
appeared on the program to date. Holliday agreed she would run with the story
if she had it. I suggested that Lynch was working us against each other,
which is journalistic standard practice. He concurred that this seemed to be
what happened
STAT
George V. au der
Director, Public Affairs
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ARTICLE
ON PAGE
2 Ex-CIA Agents
Sought by FBI
As Possible Spies
By Patrick E. Tyler
ww:sa^lwsuaw,at
The FBI said last night it has is-
sued an arrest warm fora Iarmer
CIA afcer, apparently identi fiF 4 i
a Soviet spy by Vitaly Yurchenko, a
high-ranking Soviet intelligence of-
ficer who defected two months no..
Informed sources said the FBI has
identified a second CIA officer, ap-
parently named by Ymcheako, but
has not yet taken action against
him.
Yurchenko is being debriefed un-
der tight security near Waabingtau,
a congressional source said yester-
day. T'he suspect being actively
sought by the FBI is Edward Lee
Howard, 33, who fled his bom out-
side Santa Fe, N.M., two weeks ago
after FBI agents questioned his em-
ployer.
Agents quickly searched his
home and car under a warrant say-
ing the government sought coding
equipment and espionage parapher-
nalia. The Federal Bureau of Inves-
tigation said Howard is charged
with conspiracy to deliver n4tigxsl
defense information to a foreigii
government.
A federal official said. yesterday
that the second former Central In-
telligence Agency officer has not
fled the United States, but he would
not comment on whether efforts
are being made to place the man un-
der surveillance or arrest.
A congresaiooai source also sug-
gested that a separate international
search may be under way for sev-
eral other former CIA' operatives
possibly identified as Soviet agents
by Yurcherdco, a former Soviet KGB
officer.
WASHINGTON POST
3 October 1985
The FBI was closely guarding in-
formintioot abo . the investigation
yesterday: The agenqu even asked
the Senate Select Committee on In-
telligence not to ism a statement
about the investigation afterentel-
aenacars,
another
Committee Vice Chairmen Pat-.
rick J. Leahy (D-VtJ was described
by one source a very disinurbsd
that information had leaked abed
the CIA debriefing of Yurcbenko
before law a tierce nent officials had;
time to investigate Yurchenko'sdi--
closures. After the intelligence
committee briefing yesterday, a
panel spokesman declined to say
whether the search for Howard re-
sults directly from information giv-
en by Yurchenko. He would say on
ly, "We were contacted last week
by the FBI that they were conduct-
ing an active investigation of [How-
ardl "
The profile emerging of Howard
yesterday was that of an Air Force
officer's no. a private economic an-
alyst working for New Mexico's
state Legislature and a former
Peace Corps volunteer.
Howard, who had worked for the
Agency for International Develop-
ment in Linn, Peru, from 1976 to
1979, tutpd down a posting to
Moacaw idd returned to his native
New Meaioo in 1983.
The FBI said Howard worked for
the CIA from January 1981 to June
1983 under diplomatic cover in the
State Department
According to Santa Fe court
records, he pleaded guilty last year
to assault with a deadly weapon and
was sentepced to five years' pro-
bation after being arrested for scuf-
fling with-three men in February.
Police reports said Howard fired
a .44 Magnum pistol through the
roof of a ear. during the altercation.
The FBI said be is also wanted for
unlawful flight while on probation.
Phil Baca. Howard's superior on
the New Mexico Legislature's Fi-
I DWARD LIM HOWARD
... sobjset of FBI havesaigstbs
nance Committee, described him as
"a hard worker (whol did a good job
for us.""
Baca said he was interviewed by
FBI agents Sept. 19 and, although
he declined to disclose the nature of
the questions, said he was not sur-
prised when, on Sept. 23, he found
Howard's resignation letter on his
desk. The federal warrant was is-
sued that day.
The Associated Press reported
that reporters at Howard's home in
a Santa Fe suburb late Tuesday
found a search warrant on the driv-
er's seat of his car. According to
the warrant, the AP said, federal of-
ficials were seeking coded pads. mi-
crodots attached to business cards,
recording and transmitting equip-
ment, and telephone and travel
records.
While disclosures that CIA em-
ployes may have been feeding in-
formation to the Soviets have
alarmed U.S. intelligence officials.
several of the officials said Yur-
chenko's defection and those of oth-
er Soviet intelligence officials in
London and Athens represent a ma-
jor disaster for Soviet intelligence.
"[The KGB] has been hit with an
earthquake that's above 8.0 on the
Richter scale, and we've been hit
with a few had stones," said George
A. Carver, a 26-year CIA veteran
who left the agency during the Car-
ter administration.
Wad
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' Other officials said it is far from
clear which superpower has suf-
fered the greatest hemorrhaging of
sensitive information.
Some intelligence experts sug-
gested that, while Yurchenko's de-
fection may be a short-term CIA bo-
nanza, the loss of Yurchenko and
other recent Soviet defectors to the
West actually represents setbacks
for the West, since they can no
longer be used as "moles" inside the
Soviet intelligence establishment.
Counterintelligence experts. also. .
cautioned that it will take time to
check and crosscheck information
provided by the defectors before it
is deemed reliable.
Stafjwriters T.R Reid Mary
Thornton and Loretta Tofani
contributed to this report.
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A:iTICLE AP"EARE
ON PAGE "
BALTIMORE SUN
3 October 1985
NATION
Former officer of CIA is charged
with plotting to spy
WASHINGTON (AP) - The FBI
said yesterday that it had charged a
former CIA officer with plotting to
spy for a foreign government and
had been seeking his arrest since he
fled from his New Mexico home more
than a week ago.
The bureau said Edward Lee
Howard. 33, of Santa Fe. was
charged Sept.. 23 with conspiracy to
deliver national defense information
to aid a f . i gave rrment. Sources
have said the foreign government
was the Soviet Union.
The FBI said Mr. Howard worked
for the Central Intelligence Agency
from January 1981 until June
1983. According to State Depart-
ment records, his last post was the
U.S. Embassy in Moscow. where he
operated under the cover of being a
budget analyst for the State Depart-
ment.
He was also named Friday in a
federal warrant for unlawful flight to
avoid prosecution for probation vio-
lation in New Mexico. the FBI said.
It was learned yesterday that FBI
agents had searched his home and
car in New Mexico for code pads.
microdots and other spy parapher-
nalia under a warrant seeking evi-
dence of a plot to deliver national
defense information to a foreign gov-
ernment.
The search, which occurred be-
tween Friday and Tuesday. became
krxnm as evidence emerged day that Mr.. Howard flew to Texas
more than a week ago. leaving even
his wife in the dark abolt his where-
abouts.
There were these other develop-
ments In the case of the missing offi-
cial suspected of being a spy for the
Soviet Union:
O The Santa Fe. N.M.. district at-
torney has obtained an arrest war-
rant for him, saying his flight violat-
ed his five-year probation on a 1984
gun-brandishing Incident
o Colleagues who worked with
him in the New Meidoo state go
ment said he traveled wide Boa
state business to economic confer-
ences In San Francisco. Boston. New
Orleans, El Paso. Texas. and else-
where. They said his work led him
into close dealings with some work-
ers at the Los Alamos National Labo-
..whrire oop4ecs. weapons m
ratory
search is done
O in a MlmmapnN. suburb. Ever
Cedarleaf. the father of Mr. How-
ard's wife. Mary. said Mr. Howard
had not been heard from. She
hasn't heard from him. She has no
Idea where he Is.- Mr. Cedarleaf said
his daughter' who returned Tuesday
to their Santa Fe home after a visit
to Minnesota. was dismayed by her
husband's disappearance.
O The CIA. the Justice Depart-
ment, the State Department and the
Senate Intelligence Committee all
declined to discuss the case.
Mr. Howard quit his most recent
)ob, with the New Mexico Legislative
Finance Committee in Santa Fe.
Sept. 20 and fled just before FBI
agents came to question him about
whether he had been a spy for the
Soviets. a U.S. official has said.
This ofiklaL who declined to be
identified. said Mr. Howard was
probably one of two ex-CIA men im-
Yurchenim a re. t top-lee defec-
tor from the KGB, the Soviet secret
police and lee agency.
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ON PAGE
BOSTON GLOBE
3 October 1985
FBI says ex-CIA man is sought
Associated Press
WASHINGTON - The Federal-
Bureau of investigation has
charged a ormer
ace enc offiter who
in Moscow witil plotting to spy or
a fareg~n overnmen an as
P nhis arrest since he
fled from him New co me
more than a week ago. a spo
man said
er am an FBI spokes-
man.. said Edward Lee Howard.
33. d Santa Fe, was charged la an
arrest warrant Issued Sept. 23 in
Albuquerque with conspiracy to
deliver national defense informa-
tion to aid a foreign government.
Although the FBI and the war-
rant did not say which foreign
government Howard allegedly
spied for. US sources. who would
not be named, have said it was the
Soviet Union.
One US official has said How-
ard was one of two ex-
CIA officialm imp as Soviet
agents
urchen
The CI - is believed to have
ve few US agents in the Soviet
Union, and former rs
ve said a_EM_ has
ficult recruiting Soviet citizens
as agents. us. anyone Involved
in American spy operations in the
uon to pass potentially
orma
The IN 03_ffi~u_d worked
for the CIA ft-om Jan
until June TVW. According State Department records. his last
post was the US Embassy in Mos-
cow. where he operated under the
cover 4 being the State Depart tbudget . analyst for
He was also named list Friday
In a federal warrant for unlawful
flight to avoid prosecution for pro-
bation violation in New Mexico,
the FBI said.
as spy
Meanwhile. It was learned yes-
terday that FBI agents searched
his home and car in New Mexico
for code pads. microdots and other
spy paraphernalia under a war-
rant seeking evidence of a plot to
deliver national defense Informs-
tion to a foreign government.
The search. which occurred be-
tweeeh' last 'Fridley and Tuesday,
became known as evidence
emerged yesterday that Howard
flew to Texas more than a week
ago leaving even his wife in the
dark about his whereabouts.
There were theme other develop-
ments in the Howard case:
? The Santa Fe district attor-
ney has ? obtained an arrest war-
rant for him because his flight vio-
lated his five-year probation on a
1984 gun-brandishing incident.
? Colleagues who worked with
him in the New Mexico state gov-
ernment said he traveled widely
on state business to economic con- i
ferences In San Francisco. Boston:
New Orleans: El Paso, Texas: and
elsewhere. They also said his work
led him into close dealings with
some workers at the Los Alamos
National Laboratory. where top-
secret weapons research Is done.
Howard quit his most recent
Job. with the New Mexico Legisla-
tive Finance Committee in Santa
Fe. on Sept. 20 and tied just before
FBI agents came to question him
about whether he had been a Sovi-
et spy. a US official has said.
Late Tuesday. reporters found
a copy of a federal search warrant
on the driver's seat of the
Howards' red Jeep. which was
parked in front of their home Ina
Santa Fe suburb.
The warrant said federal au-
thorities were searching for coded
pads. V" cards with micro-
dots, microfiche, recording and
transmittal equipment. docu-
ments.that identify foreign espio-
~t agents. payments trumb to
telephone contacts with
agents and trawl records.
Upon leaving the federal - gov-
ernment. Howard became an eco-
nomic analyst in July 1983 for the
Legblative Finance Committee of
the New Mexico legislature. He. .
was engaged in revenue pn eo-
tons and in analysis of the oil in-
dustry.
He left work suddenly on Sept.
20, leaving behind a resignation
note effective two days later. By
Sept. 23. FBI agents were Inter-
viewing colleagues and neighbors
about Howard and said he was
.accused of espionage."
A native of New Mexico, How-
ard was a Peace Corps volunteer
from August 1972 to August 1974
in The Dominican Republic and
Colombia. according to Peace
Corps spokesman Hugh O'Neill.
Government records show he
worked the Agency for Interna-
tional Development from 1976-
1979.
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WASHINGTON POST
4 October 1985
Ex-CIA Agent Suspected of Spying
;deemed Unexceptional to Associates
-Young New Mexico Economist Lived Quietly, Conventionally
By TR Rsid
w-rsn. w. aw wow
SANTE FE. N.M., Oct.3-To
friends and colleagues here, Ed-
ward Lee Howard seemed a stan-
dard Santa Fe-style yuppie: a re-
pected $32,000-a-year. economic
analyst with the state government
i io commuted in a bright red Jeep
to his brown adobe house in a mid-
Ale-income development south of
town.
Neighbors said he was a dutiful
husband to his wife, Mary, a dental
assistant in Santa Fe, and a devoted
father to his 2-year-old son.
He enjoyed flying radio-con-
trolled model aircraft and target-
shooting at a local gun club-hardly
remarkable pastimes for a young
professional in the Southwest.
"He did good work," said Steven
Arias, clerk of the New Mexico
Legislature, where Howard was
employed as a natural-resources
economist with the Legislative Fi-
nance Committee.
He did good work through the
afternoon of Sept. 20, when he
'briefed legislators at a budget-anal-
ysis meeting in the state capitol,
slipped quietly away and van-
then Jobed.
In Washington today, a Senate
staff official described Howard as a
low-level officer in the CIA's clan-
destine service who was fired by
tfie agency in 1983 for undisclosed
reasons and apparently took sen-
sitive material with him, perhaps to
sell it to Soviet intelligence agents.
David Holliday of the Senate Se-
lect Committee on Intelligence also
said that, based on briefings re-
ceived by the panel, he "would not
discourage" speculation that high-
level Soviet intelligence defector
Vitaly Yurchenko had identified
Howard as a spy.
called
Yurchenko, a former ranking HowBum said he ard's home and reached Mary
member of the KGB who defected Howard. He said she expressed a s-
two months ago, is being debriefed tonishment that her husband had
by the Central Intelligence Agency
at an undisclosed location near quit his job and seemed to have no
Washington. idea of his whereabouts.
:...Holliday said he could-not-identify, Federal officials here declined. to
diams how long' they been
what Howard may have taken when
he left the agency. But a warrant watching Howard and why he was
used here to search Howard's home able to leave Santa Fe before an
and car indicated that federal offs- arrest warrant was issued.
cials were seeking coding materials, Coworkers and neighbors said
FBI agents were in Santa Fe asking
transmitting and recording equip- questions about Howard in the days
ment, and business cards carrying before he fled. They said he must
microdots. have known this by the day he left
work early
A second former CIA employe is I and disappeared.
Federal law enforcement officials
reportedly under surveillance as a say Howard fled Sept., 21. He was
possible Soviet agent, apparently able to escape, a federal official in
also based on mfbrmation from Yur- Washington said, because the FBI
chenko, a federal official said today maintained a limited surveillance
in Washington, until an arrest warrant was issued.
Two days after - Howard slipped Federal agents have staked out
away, a passenger listed as "Ed- Howard's home and begun -trailing
ward Howard" took an American his wife on her daily commute from
Airlines flight from Albuquerque to home to the orthodontist's office
Dallas' The next morning, Sept. 23, where she works.
the Federal Bureau of Investigation
issued an arrest warrant for the
fugitive analyst but, by then, he was
gone-
News that this quiet, generally
mild-mannered young economist
might have been a U.S. agent work-
ing for the KGB stunned and elec-
trified his coworkers here. Equally
surprised, evidently, was Howard's
wife.
Philip Baca, Howard's boss in the
state government, said he came
into his office on the night of Sept.
22 and found a letter of resignation
from Howard. In it, Howard asked
coworkers to clean out his desk and
said he hoped "some day to be able
to explain this to you and the rest of
the staff."
Howard was born in Alamagordo,
N.M., in 1951, son of a career Air
Force sergeant. The family moved
frequently during his boyhood, and
he acquired a proficiency in Spanish
and German.
After graduating from the Uni-
versity of Texas in 1972, he spent
most of the next four years with the
Peace Corps in South America and
the United States. From 1976 to
1979, he worked in Peru for the
Agency for International Develop-
ment, according to the State De-
partment.
After earning a master's degree
in business administration from
American University, he went to
work for the CIA, where he was
employed from 1981 until spring
1983.
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In June 1983, he moved to Santa
Fe. His coworkers said they did not
know what prompted the move.
He applied for a job as an analyst
with the state Legislative Finance
Committee, a joint budget-planning
body serving both chambers of the
legislature. He told his bosses that
he had been employed by the State
Department but left State because
he and his wife did not want to ac-
cept an imminent posting to Mos-
cow.
It is fairly common for CIA co-
vert operatives to work under dip-
lomatic cover for the State Depart-
ment.
As an analyst in the Capitol build-
ing here, Howard seemed to co-
workers to & a solid, serious' young
man.
The only stain on his record here
came in February 1984 when he
was arrested for brandishing a .44-
cal. pistol at three men in down-
town Santa Fe. He told police that
he had been distraught after a fam-
ily argument and had too many
drinks at a bar. In a plea bargain, he
pleaded guilty to an assault charge
and was sentenced to probation.
As part of the bargain, Howard
obtained letters of support from
several government officials here
and in Washington. All described
him as a reliable, serious individual.
He is a dedicated, honest and
truthful individual," wrote then-
state Sen. Frank Papen, chairman
of the committee for which Howard
worked.
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ON PAGE
WASHINGTON TIMES
4 October 1985
Fired CIA pair took revenge
by spying for KGB, FBI told
BBy Bill Gertz
Vas 4.+oroN TMES
'IWo former CIA operatives sus-
pected of spying for the Soviet Union
were dismissed from the agency as
the result of improper conduct and
then took revenge by spying for the
KGB, according to administration
and congressional sources.
The J FBI is controlling to search
for Edward L Howard, a former eco-
nomic analyst with the finance com-
mittee of the New Mexico
legislature, who resigned two weeks
ago and eluded federal agents who
had placed him under surveillance.
Howard, a former CIA operations
officer hired in January 1981, was
fired by the agency in June 1983
after he was discovered stealing
money from the CIA and for using
illegal drugs, sources said.
He also failed to pass the CIA's
probationary period for new employ-
ees, the sources said.
"He was a rotten apple we got rid
of in 1983;' said a senior CIA official.
A second ex-CIA operative also is
under investigation on suspicion he
supplied CIA secrets to the KGB, the
Soviet intelligence service, in con-
nection with Howard. But sources
said his crimes appeared to be less
serious than the FBI's case against
Howard.
The unidentified former oper-
ative also was dismissed from the
agency for disciplinary reasons and
not for suspected espionage activi-
ties, sources said.
'lb date, the two former CIA
employees being sought by the FBI
are the only two Soviet agents impli-
cated by Vitaly Yurchenko, a senior
KGB defector. The CIA does not sus-
pect that a Soviet agent - or "mole"
- has burrowed into the intelligence
service, the sources said.
Howard has, been. charged with
codspicacq to-'` deliver national'
defense information to an unspecif-
ied foreign government believed to
be the Soviet Union.
The espionage charges were filed
in a federal arrest warrant issued
Sept. 23 in Albuquerque. N.M. Four
days later, Howard was charged with
unlawful flight to avoid prosecution
for violating probation on his 1984
conviction in a Santa Fe. N.M., gun-
brandishing incident.
Rep. Bill Richardson. D-N.M..
said yesterday that at his request
Rep. Lee Hamilton. chairman of the
House Select Committee on Intelli-
gence, has agreed to hold a hearing
next week on Mr. Yurchenko's
reported disclosures concerning
Americans.
"I'm extremely concerned about
the potential damage to national
security," Mr. Richardson said, allud-
ing to Howard's reported access to
the Los Alamos laboratory.
In Los Alamos, a businessman
told reporters he and a lab official
met with Howard and that Howard
had asked questions about technol-
ogy transfers. The lab conducts top
secret research on nuclear weapons
for the U .S. Department of Energy.
Contrary to news reports, How-
ard never served in Moscow nor was
he offered the post while working for
the CIA, these sources said.
Howard served in the Peace
Corps, its ACTION division and the
Agency for International Develop-
ment before his employment with
the CIA,`the sotitces'said.
Howard was described by these
sources as a "revenge case" similar
to that of former CIA cable clerk
William Kampiles.
Kampiles was convicted in 1978 of
passing the Soviets a top secret man-
ual for the KH-11 spy satellite after
failing to be admitted to the CIA's
clandestine services division.
Federal authorities were led to the
two Soviet agents by information
provided by Mr. Yurchenko, the
Soviets No. 5 man in the KGB. Mr.
Yurchenko defected to the West in
Rome Aug. 1 and is being debriefed
by the FBI and CIA.
FBI officials defended their sur-
veillance of Howard, saying he was
only a suspect and had not yet been
charged in any legal proceedings
when he disappeared.
Federal authorities in New
Mexico last month found two airline
tickets from Santa Fe to Austin,
Texas. after searching Howard's
house. Howard. 33, graduated from
the University of Texas in Austin.
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BALTIMORE SUN
4 October 1985
Mi sing SPY suspect fled
while under FBI's watch
WASHING ON (Reuter) - A for-
for Soviet Union was u der -
veillance by the PEI when he dkap-
pcnadn Resgan administration offl-
The FBlace- ed up by letting
this guy 'one administration of-
ficlal said.
The FBI refined to comment on
1981 to 1983 and has been charged
with conspiring to deliver national
defense secrets to a foreign govern-
ment
FBI officials defended the way
they conducted their surveillance of
Mr. Howard. saying he was only a
suspect and had not yet been
charged he
On Sept. 20. Mrs ~ urea-
whether another ex-aA of lcer had pectedly quit his )ob and fled
been Identified by Its counterintelli- before FBI agents were about to
t
gene after bring named as a question him concerning his alleged
by. Y hid espipn actlt a n~gals a
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alleged double agents to be re-
vealed soon in what could produce a
major shake-up in the U.S. intelli-
gence
T The former CIA employee who
fled was Edward Lee Howard. 33.
who worked for the agency from
The FBI had Interviewed his
neighbors and asaodatea to Santa
Fe. N.M.. where he worked as an
economic , tn a analyst st for the ~te Ie a
sb=* enough case_ they said
Al' they said Mr. Howard
may a Ve beealerted by news re-
ports. his arrest warrant was issued
Sept. 23, two days before the first
disclosure that Mr. Yurchenko was
naming double agents believed to
have penetrated the U.S. intelligence
community.
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BALTIMORE SUN
4 October 1985
Defedor revives fear
of high `mole' at CIA
WASHINGTON (Reuter) - Dis-
closures by a key Soviet defector
have reopened a question that has
perlmW lly tied U.S. In
knots: Is there a high- Soviet
'mole' in the Central Intelligence
tdtigen a sources say that
the defector. Vitaly Yurche nko. a
high afflc tai in the KGB. came over
to the West in Rome last summer.
bringing highly sensitive Informa-
tion that Included names of U.S.
double The ageoM
is re of those nshnesis
likely to pro a dmkke-r in the
American intelligence community.
the sagas mid declined to give
detalls.
The Justice Department has said
that Mr. Yurchenko, who is now be-
Ing 'debriefed' by the CIA at an un-
disclosed location in the United
States, has implicated
ftuma a"
HaZN the agency
18 months agir and Is now the sub-
)ect of a police manhunt.
Some congressional sources who
have been involved in overseeing
U.S. Intelligence. including San. Mal-
colm Wallop. R-Wyo.. believe that
KGB moles are active in the CIA to-
Mr. Wallop said he hoped that the
new revelations would fuel efforts to
uncover such moles
'We have managed to penetrate
the KGB, and it's Inconceivable that
we have such a corner on the
world's morality that they haven't
been able to do the same thing with
us.' Mr. Wallop, who felt the Senate
Intelligence Co ,ee earlier this
year after an eight-year tenure. told
Reuters.
This is not the first time that U.S.
Intelligence has been shaken by a
mole mystery.
In 1961. Soviet defector Anatoly
Golltsyn told U.S. officials that there
was at least one high-level mole in
_ CIA counterintelligence chief
James Angleton searched for the
tralfce or traitors for mere than 12
yc until he was fired in 1974 for
excessive zeal, former intelligence
offlc~ls say.
They say that Mr. Angleton s
mole hunt ply caused parts
of ,hi ClA vh~ to grind to a halt.
some
CIA veterans of what they regarded
as an ovary zealous campalgIL
Fanner CIA ofBclal George Carver
said: 'The Soviets have been trying
to penetrate us for 40 years. and Of
course we need to be careful. but If
you went on a great mole hunt the
whole o pain ation would seize up.'
Mr. Wallop said that the fear of
resurrecting the Angleton era has so
eroded U.S.. spy-catthing. abilities
that -the United States
and is thus highly vulnerable to KGB
penetration.
Legislation passed in 1985 called
for the enlargement of CIA mole-
hunting operations and for more
analysis aimed at detecting false in-
formation planted by the KGB.
Neither program has been Imple-
mented vigorously because Intelli-
gence officers are not committed to it
and do not like investigators con-
stantly questioning their loyalty. as
Mr. Angleton had done. Mr. Wallop
said
Ex-CIA Director Stanfield Turn-
er said in a book released this year
that Mr. Angleton's approach bor-
dered on paranoia.
When a second Soviet defector.
Yuri Nosenko. cast doubt on Mr. Gol-
itsyn's story. Mr. Angleton ordered
Mr. Nosenko to be locked in a small
cell. without a toothbrush or suffi-
dent food. for 3% years. Mr. Turner
wrote. Mr. Nosenko was at times in-
terrogated for 24 hours without a
break.
Doubts about Mr. Angleton's
methods have not erased concerns
that the agency may have been infil-
trated at high levels.
Former CIA Director William Col-
by conceded that such Infiltration
was a possibility. as did Mr. Carver.
although both were skeptical.
A former director of the Defence
Intelligence Agency. who spoke on
condition that he not be named. said
that in recent years Communist
agents had learned psychological
techniques to avoid being uncovered-
by He detector tests that are given to
CIA job applicants.
V111,
If such agents posing as loyal
Americans had managed to pene-
trate the be-detector screen. they
would today be at relatively low CIA
levels. but could go higher. he said.
David Phillips. a former high CIA
official, said he doubted that the
agency had been penetrated at top
levels. but added: You can't be ab-
solutely sure, of court.... If they
had a real mole. he would stay for
his whole career then retire and
grow grapes in California'
JAMES ANGLLrTON
Ex-CIA counterintelligence chief
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ON PAGE 4 October 1985
Suspect Is Believed to Have Told Soviet of U.S.
Spying in Moscow
By STEPHEN ENGELIERG
Spsalal to TVw Mw Yak lima
WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 - Edward L.
Howard, a former Central Intelligence
Agency officer, is believed to have
given the Soviet Union significant s?
cret information about the methods the
-United States uses to gather inteW-
? gene in Moscow, Congressional
sources said tonight.
The sources said Mr. Howard, who is
the
being techniques as bow trained he in
to be sent to Moscow as an operational
officer for the C.I.A.
The Federal Bureau of investigation
has said Mr. Howard, who is 33 years
old, served in the C.I.A. from January
1961 to June 1963,' One official said to-
-day that he left the ageneyatter failing
to pass a routine polygraph, or lied.-
- tector. test and had not served in blos.
The C.I.A. refused to say whether it
had ever employed the iodivduual in
oMdale have said Mr. Howard fled
the country sometime an the weekend
of Sept. U. uhortly after his friends and
co-workers bad been questioned by the
Federal Bureau of InvesdPtiGIL
Mr. Yurchmko Is being questioned at
an undisclosed location in the United;
States.
only Amedealls Under Serurtlay
One official said Mr. Howard and the
second tot ma intelligence employee
were the only America= under inve i-
Mr. rY lurcheoko octed
to the West in July while be was in
for International Development, which,
administers foreign aid abroad, hired
him as an intern in Washington in Sep.
camber Uzi. He was later a signed to
Peru as an assistant project develop-
the
I from
ment officer and resigned agency March IM.
In mid-August, the Italian prom pub-
lishad brief articles reporting that Mr.
Yurchenko had disappeared and that
inquiries were being made by the;
have been caused by Mr. Howard. Offi-
cials say he is one of two American io-
telligence officers identified as Soviet
recruits by a Soviet defector, Vitaly.
Yurchenko, a senior member of the
K.G.B., the Soviet intelligence agency.
Government officials said today that
the second simpect
of investtiigamiig the defec-identified
tor's the course of
tor's statements.
National Security Role Hinted
cow.
The official would not characterise
the type of problem found by the poly.
graph but indicated that it apparently
was not related to espionage. Another
official said a test result suggesting es-
pionage by an employee would have
started a a wide-ranging criminal in-
vestigation.
Senator Expresses Concern
CBS News tonight quoted Senator
Dave Durenberger, chairman of the Se-
lect Committee an Intelligence, as say-
ing that the security breach caused by
Mr. Howard could be as "serious as
anything this country has seen in the
past." Mr. Durenberger said :hat the
suspect might have provided details of
how he United States got sensitive in-
forniauon from the Soviet Union.
The intelligence committee has been
briefed on the potential damage said to
The officials would not say what
agency of the Government had em-
ployed the second suspect. although
one intelligence source indicated it was
the National Security Agency, which
deals with this Nation's moat secret)
codes and communications.
One intelligence source said the sec-
and suspect had access to details about
secret United States electronic and
satellite surveillance of communica-
tions. "Let's just say he was part of the
intelligence community," that source
said.
I
Officials said lltr. Howard was the ioed in clandestine Service Of the C.I.A. He
was charged on Sept 23 with caaspir- lag to pevvide national defense infor-
mationpMdamba have Tsai Mr. Howard
eluded the Federal autho itiee and fled his home in Santa Fe, N.M. He had
employed by the New lesion Legislature
An intelligence turegesince 1963 as an economic
intelligence source said Mr. How ard, - "a disgruntled employee," ap-
Qroac lned the Russians with an offer to pprovide secret information. Various at.
offeredtlcials conflicting accounts on
whether Mr. Howard began working
with Soviet intelligence agents before
or after be left the C.I.A.
Dal by State Department
A Reagan Administration official
said Mr. Howard left the agency after
be was assigned to a post in Moscow.
The State Department. denying pub-
lished reports, said today that Mr.
Howard bad never served in the Amer-
ican Embassy in Moscow. The Agency
Soviet Embassy. But it was not until
Aug. 3o that the Milan newspaper Cor-
riere Della Sera reported that be was a
de[rtctor.
One former C.I.A. officer said it
would be unusual to assign an inexpert-,
soced officer like Mr. Howard to Moe-
eow, one of the agency's most demand-I
ivg poi;W. 8ta< !r, added.that .tit Mr.
mom ~MState me as a ht have
been more Russians
because he had not served in jobs utsurr
associated with the Central IntelIi-
gen a Agency. A Congressional source
"opera
tional" j in the to hold an -
rispform= would mean that Mrr. Howard had been
. respaodble for coordinating informs
lion-gathe ing clandestinely.
He would
thus have access, the former officer
wont ao . to m
a limited nuber of names
of agents as well as the location of other
sources of information such as elect
traoic listening pats - but an agent in
an operational job would not know
about the networ of b agents run by
others in similar posts.
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WASHINGTON TIMES
7 October 1985
KGB paid former CIA agent,
FBI says
n* ASSOCIATED PRESS
Fugitive ex-CIA agent Edward L
Howard met in Austria a year ago
with Soviet KGB officials who paid
him money for U.S. intelligence
secrets, the FBI says.
Meanwhile, sources in Washing-
ton said FBI agents are also
watching and investigating a second
former US. intelligence officer sus-
pected of spying for the Soviets.
In. Albuquerque, N.M.,_ the FBL.
charged Howard, 33, an economic
analyst, with selling U.S. intelligence
secrets to the Soviet Union.
The- sources - federal officials
who spoke on condition they not be
identified - said that the second
suspect, like Howard, was fired
from a US. intelligence job.
It also was disclosed on Friday
that FBI agents confronted Howard
in New Mexico with espionage alle-
gations against him less than two
days before he eluded the FBI and
fled. Howard is wanted on charges
of supplying national defense infor-
mation to a foreign power.
In filing a revised criminal com-
plaint alleging that Howard had sold
secrets, the FBI did not say how
much money changed hands.
Howard was fired by the CIA in
1983 after, a source said, he refused
assignment to Moscow and was
implicated by a polygraph test in
petty theft of money and illegal drug
use. He disappeared from his home
in Santa Fe, N.M., less than two days
after being confronted by FBI
agents with the espionage allega-
tions on Sept. 20.
The FBI agent said the bureau
was told recently about a former
CIA agent who was working for the
KGB by "a confidential source with
intimate knowledge of Soviet intelli-
gence matters." A source said this
was Vitaly Yurchenko, the No. 5 man
in the KGB who defected to the West
in Rome two months ago.
According to an accompanying
affidavit filed by the FBI's Martin R.
Schwarz, the Soviet intelligence
source told the FBI that "senior offi-
cials of the Soviet Committee for
State Security, KGB, met in Austria
in the fall of 1984 with a former CIA
employee. The former CIA employee
was paid money in exchange for
classified. information relating to
U.S. intelligence sources and meth-
ods:'
The FBI investigation turned up
evidence that Howard was in St.
Anton, Austria on Sept. 20,1984. Mr
Schwarz said.
The FBI also charged that How-
ard traveled to South Padre Island,
Texas, in July as part of his violation
of espionage statutes. Mr. Schwarz
said in that month Howard told
another confidential FBI source of
his meeting in Europe with the Sovi-
ets. Howard told this source that the
Soviets had paid for the trip and that
he had received cash. for..inforipa-.
tion.' t%e source relayed this infor-,
mation to the FBI last month, Mr
Schwarz said.
Mr. Schwarz also quoted from a
note Howard left his employer to
give to his wife.
"Well, I'm going and maybe I'll
give them what they think I already
gave them;' the note said in part.
Mr. Schwarz also said Howard
met with two current CIA employees
on Sept. 24, 1984, and told them that
in October 1983 he had traveled to
Washington and spent several hours
near the Soviet Embassy trying to
decide whether to enter the embassy
and disclose classified information.
One federal source said the two
current CIA employees were fl iends
of Howard's from his CIA days. CIA
spokeswoman Kathy Pherson had no
comment on the incident, or on why,
it appeared to have taken a year for
the two CIA employees to report this
contact.
The FBI's revised complaint
against Howard and the affidavit
were filed Wednesday but were only
released in the federal court on Fri-
day.
In Washington, a source said con-
tinued surveillance and checking
into the second suspect, who is still
in this country. were required to
develop enough evidence to obtain
an arrest warrant.
'1Wo other U.S. officials said the
second suspect had been fired from ,
a US. intelligence job, just as How-
ard was by the CIA in June 1983. In
both cases, the firings may have con-
tributed to a decision to offer infor-
mation to the Soviets.
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LOS ANGELES TIMES
8 October 1985
Firing by CIA Possible Motive in Spy Case
By RONALD J. OSTROW and DOYLE McMANUS, Times Staff Writers
WASHINGTON-Spy suspect islative Finance Committee, where
Edward L. Howard was fired in he went to work after leaving the
1983 by the CIA, and anger over his CIA, said Howard had told him that
discharge may have prompted him he left the department after being
to provide information to the Sovi- assigned as a Foreign Service offi-
ets, U.S. officials said Thursday. cer to the embassy in Moscow.
Those officials refused to give But department spokesman
any reasons for the firing of How- Charles E. Redman said that How-
ard. who is now the object of an and had never worked for the
intense FBI manhunt, and one department or in the U.S. Embassy
source said the records indicated in Moscow in any capacity. He said
that he was'"allowed to resign." Howard had been employed by the
'MMIv. ei R.vw Agency for IAterflati0)Dal Develop=
But "a motive of revenge or
disgruntlement has been known to
be involved in other espionage
cases," one official noted.
Another source said that it is
"not entirely clear whether (How-
ard) had his final walking papers
(from the CIA) when he was first
in contact with the Soviets." How-
ever, he added that he understood
Howard was not working for the
Soviets when he was carrying out
CIA assignments.
Intelligence sources have em-
phasized that Howard was not a
classic "mole"-a spy who has
infiltrated an intelligence agency
to obtain information from it.
Those sources said that Howard
was discussing a CIA assignment at
the U.S. Embassy in Moscow under
a State Department cover when he
was fired.
Curtis Porter, Howard's former
supervisor at the New Meadco Leg-
meat from September, 1878, until
March, 1979, when he resigned.
Howard did not work for the CIA
when he was with AID, one Ad-
ministration source said. The FBI
has said that Howard worked for
the CIA from January, 1981, to
June,1983.
Meanwhile; an FBI source ac-
knowledged that Howard dropped
from sight on the night of Sept. 21
while .FBI agents had him under
surveillance at his home in a
suburb of Santa Fe, N. M. But the
source emphasized that the agents
had no authority to arrest Howard
until two days later, when they
obtained an arrest warrant.
"It was a loose-perimeter sur-
veillance, not meant to contain
someone," the source said. He
described Howard as "a trained
agent" and said he eluded the FBI
agents in the early morning hours
of a "moonless night." There was a
half moon over Santa Fe that night.
but weather records indicate that it
was obscured by stormy weather.
An intelligesio, some. said that
the Soviet KGB dshetor who pro-
vided information that helped lead
the FBI to Howard has also given
information that may implicate a
second former CIA operative as a
Soviet spy. But the source stressed
that the investigation involving the
second individual is ongoing and
had reached no conclusions yet,
Hooso Hearlag oespies
The defector. Vilely Yurchenko,
left his temporary Soviet diplomat-
ic assignment in Rome in August
and now is in the United States.
The information he gave was added
to other data the FBI had that then
led them to Howard. the intelli-
gence source said.
The House Select Committee on
Intelligence plaza a hearing next
week on Yurchenko's disclosures
about American spies, Rep. Bill
Richardson (D-N. M.) said. He said
that Rep. Lee H. Hamilton (D-
Ind. ), the panel's chairman. had
agreed to his request for the hear-
ing.
However, a Senate Intelligence
Committee source questioned
whether public hearings on the
Yurchenko information would pro-
duce anything worthwhile, noting
that Yurchenko's leads are still
being checked.
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4 October 1985
SPY SUSPECT
BY MICHAEL J. SNIFFEN
WASHINGTON
Edward L. Howard refused to transfer to Moscow for the CIA and was fired by
the U.S. spy agency, all at about the same time he began working for the Soviet
KGB, U.S. authorities say.
U.S. officials said Thursday they believe the fugitive former CIA
clandestine agent started working for the Soviet spy agency because he was angry
over being assigned to Moscow.
An FBI affidavit in federal court in New Mexico showed that Howard learned of
the bureau's interest in his when agents interviewed his directly an Sept. 20,
the day he abruptly quit his job before fleeing.
Government officials familiar with the case were willing to discuss it only
on grounds that they not be identified.
Meanwhile, The New York Times, citing congressional sources it did not
-identify, -?said today that Howard! iS? believed` to -have `given"tifte Sbv1et' Un 6n-
secret information about how the United States gathers intelligence information
in Moscow.
And CBS News on Thursday quoted Sen. Dave Durenberger, chairman of the Senate
Committee on Intelligence as saying that Howard might have given the Soviets
information on U.S. intelligence gathering. Durenberg, R-Minn., said the
security breach caused by Howard could be as serious as anything this country
has seen in the past," according to CBS.
Howard, 33, went to work for the CIA's clandestine service in January 1981
and was fired by the agency in June 1983, according to U.S. officials who were
uncertain as to the reason for his dismissal.
Howard told co-workers when he returned to his native New Mexico in July 1983
that he had just turned down a government assignment to Moscow. That refusal
might have prompted a firing, but two sources indicated Howard had failed a
CIA -administered polygraph.
The CIA tests prospective, current and departing employees on the polygraph
for security breaches, and in some but not all circumstances, a failure can lead
to an employee's firing. The test is intended to cover a wide range of subjects,
from espionage to simple negligence with secret information.
One intelligence source has said there is no evidence Howard worked for the
Soviets before he left the CIA, but other sources have suggested he hooked up
with the Soviets very shortly before he left CIA.
Either case would be less damaging than if Howard had worked inside CIA for
some time under the actual direction of the Soviets.
Asked what motivated Howard to work for the Soviets, one official said
Thursday, "He was ticked off over his assignment to Moscow. That's why he went
over to the other side."
Curtis Porter, who hired Howard in July 1983 as an economic analyst for the
New Mexico legislature's finance committee, said, "He said he was going to be
posted to Moscow and wouldn't want to raise his kid there. ... He never went."
Howard's son, Lee, is now 2. ContiV"
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Porter said Howard claimed to have worked for the State Department in
Washington. The State Department job was Howard's cover while at CIA.
One former top-level U.S. counterintelligence official said it was surprising
that a young agent would refuse a Moscow assignment even with a small child.
"A young agent can't expect to get London or Paris. Besides, Moscow is sort
of a plum in terms of one's career, and there are worse foreign outposts," the
former counterspy said. "However, if the agent were already working for the
Soviets, he might be worried that they would press him to do so many things in
Moscow that he would get caught."
Howard was charged by the FBI on Sept. 23 with conspiring to transmit
national defense information to a foreign power. FBI agents have been trying to
arrest him since then but he has been missing from his home in Santa Fe, N.M.
since Sept. 22.
Vitaly Yurchenko, a ranking KGB official who defected this summer in Rome, /
has told American authorities that two ex- CIA agents went to work for the
Soviets, and one official says Howard probably is one of them.
'-At the State' Dep rfinen , s~QftesMan'Ctiarle's Redman satd'Howard never, worked
for the department or the U.S. Embassy in Moscow. A department official said
Howard's planned transfer was entered into the records for his cover job at
State and, the records never were corrected because of an oversight.
Meanwhile, a minor flap developed inside the Justice Department over Howard's
success in eluding FBI agents.
One department source said Justice officials felt the FBI agents had bungled
the effort to keep track of Howard, but a federal law enforcement source said
the agents did all they could before an arrest warrant was obtained.
The department source said agents went to his home while he was out before he
fled, and his wife let them conduct an informal look around the house. An FBI
affidavit filed in federal court in Albuquerque said FBI agents interviewed
Howard himself an Sept. 20 and said the FBI "believes that after Howard's
interview with the FBI and his speculation that he would be charged with a
federal violation, he fled sometime during the evening of Sept. 21."
Howard abruptly left work on Sept. 20, leaving behind a typed resignation
note.
This source said FBI agents were still watching the house when Howard slipped
away, apparently overnight on Sept. 21. He is thought to have flown from
Albuquerque, 60 miles away, to Dallas on the afternoon of Sept. 22.
But a federal law enforcement source said the agents were not there to keep
constant watch on Howard. "Their purpose was to find our where he lived, how
many members were in his family, when he normally left and came home, and any
other habits that might assist them later if they came back for an arrest," this
source said.
"It's often necessary to contact even the subject or their relatives directly
to get probable cause for an arrest, and that was necessary in this case," the
law enforcement source said.
"The agents had no arrest warrant, and he could have told them to get lost,"
he continued. "Sure, it would have been nicer if he didn't leave an a moonless
night, but he is a trained agent."
On that Saturday night in Santa Fe, there was a half-moon, but there were
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5 October 1985
FORMER CIA CHIEF PREDICTS MORE SPIES TO BE FOUND
AUSTIN, TX
A former top U.S. spymaster says he was not surprised by charges that a
fugitive former CIA agent sold secrets to the Soviet Union, and predicts more
double agents will be uncovered.
"The odds are high there will be spies in other agencies as well," said Bob
Inman, a former director of the National Security Agency and a former deputy
director of the CIA.
Inman, in an Interview published Saturday by the Austin American-Statesman
said internal changes in the CIA designed to identify double agents "may be
the beginning to pay off some dividends."
Former agent Edward L. Howard has been charged with selling U.S. intelligence
secrets to the Soviet Union. He has been sought since he disappeared from his
home in Santa Fe, N.M., less than two. days after FBI agents confronted his with
espionage allegations on Sept..Tp.... ,
Howard, 33, met in Austria a year ago with Soviet KGB officials and received
money for U.S. intelligence secrets, according to an affidavit filed in federal
court in Albuquerque, N.M., and made public Friday.
According to government sources, Howard was fired by the CIA in 1983 after
he refused assignment to Moscow and was implicated by a polygraph test in petty
theft of money and in illegal drug use.
Sources in Washington said the FBI was investigating a second suspect who,
like Howard, was fired from a U.S. intelligence job.
Inman said it was not unusual to see a flurry of spy defections in a short
period as has happened to both East and West in the past few months in Europe.
"You tend to get them in cycles," he said.
He said spies who defect often identify other spies and "moles," or double
agents.
"Instantly there is a tendency for the handlers of those agents to send out
an alarm that they may be exposed," Inman said. "In some cases they don't move
and the leads come out and you begin to arrest people."
Inman, a retired admiral, is president of Microelectronics and Computer
Technology Corp of Austin. He was director of the National Security Agency from
1977 to 1981 and deputy CIA director in 1981 and 1982.
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Howard is the only known possible Soviet mole. But a
second former CIA officer is also reported under suspicion.
CIA spokesmen reaffirm emphatically there is no reason
to suspect any present CIA employee.
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Soviet
defector
led KGB
in U.S.
By Bin Gertz
TM YVAN.wyOM Mae
Senior Soviet KGB defector
Vitaly Ylrchenko has been identi-
fied as Moscow's top North
American spy operations expert,
according to the US. State Depart-
ment.
After weeks of official silence, the
State Department saidthat Mr 'ear-
chenko has been in the United States
"for some time" after defecting in
Rome.
..Prior to his voluntary arrival in
the United States in August 1985, Mr.
Yurchenko served as deputy chief in
the North American Department of
the KGB's First Chief Directorate"
the statement said. "The First Chief
Directorate handles KGB intelli-
gence operations worldwide:'
Mr. Yurchenko "had previously
asked that his presence here not be
publicized:' the statement said,
explaining why official comment
had been withheld prior to last week.
"Mr. Yurchenko was specifically
responsible for KGB intelligence
operations in the United States and
Canada," the statement said.
During what was described as
a"lengthy career" in the KGB, Mr.
Yurchenko held "various key posi-
tions" in the KGB, including the
most sensitive post of global coun-
terintelligence - directing all pen-
etrations of foreign governments
and policing the KGB and GRU, the
military spy service. He also ran
KGB operations out of the Soviet
embassy in Washington between
1975 and 1980, the State Department
said.
As deputy chief in the North
American department, Mr. Yur-
chenko would have directed several
categories of KGB operations in the
linited States and Canada.
WASHINGTON TIMES
14 October 1985
These activities, according to one
intelligence expert who declined to
be identified, would have included
political, military and technological
espionage, such as handling Ameri-
cans and foreign nationals spying for
Moscow; "active measures;'- var-
ious covert action and "disinfor-
mation" programs; and a network of
"illegal" agents operating indepen-
dently of Soviet and East bloc diplo-
matic representatives.
The statementyrovided no data
for Mr. Y ircnenim a duties before or
after his 1980
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The State Department identified
Mr. Ylirchenko's counterspy role as
"chief of Department S of Director-
ate K [worldwide counterintelli-
gence] of the First Chief
Directorate," a position that would
have provided him with access to
some aspects of virtually every
operation of the KGB, GRU and East
bloc foreign intelligence services
throughout the world.
Soviet security services conduct
very active counterspy programs
that require officers to monitor, to
some degree, all Soviet and East bloc
agents and the information they pro-
vide to the KGB and GRU, the intel-
ligence expert said.
Intelligence sources close to Mr
Yurc en s debriefing sal t e
KGB officer has been nrovidina L LS.
authorities with a win fall of lli-
gence ata a out KGB operations
and operational methods since
August is debriefing by Justice
Department and CIA officials began
ffien at an undisclosed location in the
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tinue ors -several Years. these
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Union after leaving the agency
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17 October 1985 fiLE ONLY
HOWARD MAY BE IN MOSCOW, SOURCES SAY
BY MICHAEL J. SNIFFEN
WASHINGTON (AP) U.S. officials tracked fugitive ex-CIA agent
Edward L. Howard, charged with spying for the Soviet Union, to
Helsinki, Finland, and presume that he is now in Moscow, sources said
Thursday.
Two administration sources, who declined to be identified by name,
said that Howard, who disappeared from his New Mexico home Sept. 21,
was traced by FBI agents first to Dallas and Austin, Texas, and later
to the Finnish capital, from which entry into the Soviet Union would be
relatively easy.
Howard, 33, who was fired by the CIA in June, 1983, was charged by
the FBI on Sept. 23 with selling U.S. intelligence secrets to Soviet
KGB officials in Austria a year ago. Howard was forced to resign from
the agency after a polygraph test suggested that he had used illegal
drugs and engaged in petty theft. The resignation occurred shortly
after he had turned down an assignment to Moscow with the CIA's
clandestine service.
~Ealie?r', -government' ourcesh* d ,reported that the United States had
recently lost contact with a Soviet citizen who had for several years
provided valuable information about high-technology electronics and
aviation research.
On Thursday, the Wall Street Journal identified the missing agent
as
A.G. Tolkachev. The Journal said Tolkachev was an electronics expert at
a military aviation institute in Moscow and had told the CIA about
Soviet research on the electronic guidance of aircraft and on so-called
stealth'' technology for avoiding radar detection.
Three government officials on Thursday, however, disputed the
Journal's contention that Howard had tipped the Soviets off to
Tolkachev and that Howard had been given Tolkachev's name because he
was to be assigned the task of communicating with Tolkachev in Moscow.
One of these government sources said U.S. intelligence officials
were not prepared to link the disappearance of the agent in Moscow to
the Howard spying case. Another government official said the agent in
Moscow may have been uncovered through the use of an invisible spy
dust'' that the KGB has been using to track contacts between U.S.
officials and Soviet citizens, or because Soviet agents observed
so-called ''dead drops'' where agents in Moscow hide messages for one
another.
A third government official questioned whether an agent as valuable
as the one in Moscow would be assigned to a CIA officer as young and
inexperienced as Howard.
U.S. officials were tipped off to Howard's alleged spying by Vitaly
Yurchenko, the No. 5 officer in the Soviet KGB, who defected to the
West in Rome more than two months ago.
Sources said Yurchenko provided an alias and enough descriptive
information for U.S. agents to identify Howard as one of two U.S.
officers who Yurchenko said were spying for the Soviet
Union.
U.S. sources have said that the second former U.S. intelligence
official is still under surveillance by the FBI in an effort to obtain
enough evidence to justify an arrest.
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