SPY-EXPOSURE STORY UNFOUNDED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000201930005-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 9, 2010
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: December 6, 1980
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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to support allegations that a Carter~d- ...''Tn . a brief announcement, the com
ministration>'official had accidentally mtttee.said: "No`credible evidence of
any kind was found to support the al-
.exposed a U.S.-'spy in Moscow legations...
Press accounts in recent months said According to the press accounts, Tri-
a spy co4le-named Trigon had vanished; :.gon was :either a cable clerk in the So
.and linked his disappearance With the viet Foreign Ministry or the higher-.!
sentencing to,death for treason of a Sa ;ranking Filatov. Some. press.: reports
viet official.named_AnatolyFilatov,' identified: David Aaron, deputy national
1978 security; adviser, to .the president, as `
:;-The story was investigated. ~y the In the administration official who allegedly,
telligence Committee at the request of accidentally identified the U.S_spy
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