CIA SPY GAVE CLUES OF INTENT TO AGENTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00965R000302330033-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 8, 2012
• Sequence Number: 33
• Publication Date: October 21, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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trained For a Mos-
cow assi8tunent and learned some of
the agency's most sensitive secrets
before he was fired in June 1983
after failing two lie detector tests,
the official said.
The intelligence official, who
spoke on the condition he not be
identified, called the affair "a secu-
rity scandal ?f major Proportions,"
He said the CIA had failed to take
steps ro put Howard u
d
n
er surveil.
cersm Austria herohad~ CIA otfi-
getting even for his dy ~ d~ yb
revealing details of the CIA's Mos-
cow operations.
During a 1984 trip ro Austria,
Howard gave the Soviet intelligence
service, the KGB, information that
led ro the arrest of a CIA agent in the
Soviet avionics industry, according
to federal officials,
Howard met "two current
employees of the CIA" four dsrys later
and told them he had wed
according Lo cou~ets m Vfisshing0~n,
sta.
Howard's meeting wim the,CIA oQl-
cers was not repot~te,d to the FBI, but
CIA officials con
action was talon." U~nderN ~ t'iaLe
acY laws, the CIA cannot monitor
Americans who express "fan ?
about spying, a CU offlcial sat
cerned about him a ~ coo-
the official, said, t~eI1984]'
neglected nor ignoe+ed ? Pub isb~
C~ SPY
gave clues
of intent
to agents .
B~ Bill Gertz
The CIA mishandled both the hir-
ingand firing of Edward 4 Howard,
a former employee suspected of sell-
ingthe Soviet Union top secret infor-
mation, on CIA operations in
Moscow, an intelligence official says.
Fugitive and former CIA oper-
ative Howard h
d
WASHINGTON TIMES
21 October 1985
reports have said the CIA hired a
Psychiatrist !br Howat,d ~. he leh
agency- tD work a, a ire
analyst in New Mexico.
S eta ~ ~ state fled the United
~ believed m be ;a Mo.-
Howard'a treachery was dia-
closed by Soviet deice Vim,
a senior KGB aQices:
~~ ~ m Iat~d-
Hdidyr
said the oo~itta ~ ~
charges thatt6e~ ~~aler~d
to Howardti WLemant that be had
UtdOO the
Undee CIA guidalioes, ~ ~,
apiaoags m rhos
FBL The FBI maim a ~~~
olHoe at the CIA's headquaroetw ~
~kY, Va., m handle such Cases.
Mr. Holiday said that during ini-
tialcommittee briefings on the How-
ard ease, no mention was made of
the CIA's contact with Howard in
Austria.
How fo m ~~os that
we have woofed Lo know all along is
what was the result of the first (poly.
BraPh teat]." Mr. Holidtp- said is an
he see d N~ did~he pt+oblems an
in that 2Yryear Period~or~was 'ti
detecoed in the beginning," he asked?
A CIA official said Howard would
not have been hired by the agency if
he had failed polygraph >~g.
But another administration offi-
cial said Howard failed one of two
PolYgraph~ testa when he was hired
by the CIA in January 1981.
~ ~b ~ ~tY Lest, a
estyle indi-
catedillegal drug usebHege~ LDId to
"clean up his act"and tag
within the CIAb claadeao'tne open-.
otters divisioq the otficfal said. T~vo
and a half yarn IaLer, Howard again
failed a lie detector test, which
showed continued drug use and also
theft of agency funds, the official
said
Rather than transfer Howard out
of cland~ services, the agency
~Y dimmissed him, he said
The CIA's handling of the Howard
case has focused attention on
Deputy CIA Director John N.
~ro? ~ ageocYh executive
the tune Howard was
hired in January 1983.
cial, Mr M~ t? an intelligence offi-
cMahon vetoed an over-
counteraPY Program, which
might Gave helped agents spot How-
us~ ~ c;ontacted the KGB in
deLe~edp atwiher suspected Soviet
spy. John Walker.. wbA allegedly met
frequently with KGB oCieials in
Vieaua, and might Dave prevented
CIA clerk Sharon Scranage from
Paaaing secrets m a Ghanayan intd?
~~~ agent, the official said.
~e Pleaded guilty last month,
~ ~~Uter is awaiting trW is
Bat
In 1978 Mr. McMahan was pro-
Emoted by former CIA direcmr Stars.
operations -~thedeputy direcLOt' for
dies clandestine o~p ~ oans~
~ limitred teclmip
electronic intelligence colle~on.
Conservative critics have charged
that Mr. McMahon'a control over
C~~,~_ ~_~Pses that oI CIA
~0~an George Lauder
would not say what role Mr.
MoMa~ Played in brin6ing How-
ard into ~ agency. But he said
~. Job McMahon had absolutely
nothing to do with Howard depar-
ture from the agency." .
After Howard's disappeB~Ce
last month in New Mexico, the CIA's
chief of security, William KoLOpisfi, ,
admuustiatie oa offici ~ poet' an
described the new CIA ~sedcttrity .
chief as a "manager" with no secu-
rity background who had been rec-
declined ro breval h Mnaca ahon. He
Mr. Lauder confirmed that a new
security chief has been appointed
but said the selection had been made
by Mr. Casey.
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