U.S PLOT TO SPY ON SOVIETS IN AFGHANISTAN IS REPORTED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000100260038-3
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 21, 2010
• Sequence Number: 38
• Publication Date: October 10, 1983
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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ARTICLE ~ WASHINGTON POST
ON FACE 10 October 1983
U.S. Plot to Spy on Soviets
In Afghanistan Is Reported
Reuter
LONDON, Oct. 9-A - secret U.S.
operation to "bug" Soviet bases in
Afghanistan has been exposed by the
death of an alleged British-born spy,
The Observer newspaper reported
today.
Radio Kabul last week said Stuart
Bodman,.30, was shot.-dead in July
in a clash with rebel -forces -while
working as a British agent. The Brit-
ish Foreign Office said it knew noth-
ing-about him.
The Observer said he was in fact
working for a U.S. organization called
the "Defense Intelligence Service."
lOfficials in Washington today
were unable to trace the existence of
a Defense Intelligence Service, al-
though there is a -Defense Intelli-
gence Agency.)
"He was part of an important
scheme to set up a network of per-
manent listening devices near Rus-
sian bases inside Afghanistan," The
Observer said.
It said the devices, known as tran-
sponders, could distinguish between
the movements of men, tanks and
aircraft and relay information back
to the West via satellites.
The Observer said Bodman was a
member of a large group of "free-
lance" agents-most of them ex-
soldiers, operating out of Peshawar,
Pakistan-with the knowledge of the
British and U.S. secret services.
It said the equipment that Mos-
cow says Bodman and five colleagues
took into Afghanistan-a satellite
dish, a transmitter and a keyboard-
could not have been used without
the consent. of the U.S. National Se-
curity Agency.
It added that the freelancers were
recruited and sent into Afghanistan
with a "shopping list." The Observer
quoted one freelancer as saying the
United States wanted "anything, just
anything" from the so-called Hind
helicopter and that a western intel-
ligence agency might pay Si million
for its instrument panel.
STAT
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