EX-CIA AGENT SUSPECTED OF SPYING SEEMED UNEXCEPTIONAL TO ASSOCIATES

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was arrested for brandishing a .44
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N?Young New Mexico Economist Lived Quietly, Conventionally,
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F?; Waiwgem, Pod stag write
jw 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-
spected $32,000-a-year economic
'analyst with the state government
who commuted in a bright red Jeep
to his brown adobe house in a mid-
die-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-
s slwoting,at a local gun dub-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,
then slipped quietly away and van-
ished.
In Washington today, a Senate
r staff official. described Howard as a
low-ievet f-tte CIA's clan-
destine'vextrrJce who was fired by.
eed
M.M. iMOW.
transmitting and recording equip- Howard was born in Alamagordo,
ment, and business cards carrying N.M., in 1951, son of a career Air
microdots. Force sergeant. The family moved
A second former CIA employe is frequently during his boyhood, and
reportedly under surveillance as a he acquired a proficiency in Spanish
possible Soviet agent, apparently and German.
also based on information from Yur- After graduating from the Uni-
chenko, a federal official said today versity of Texas in 1972. he spent
in Washington. most of the next four years with the
Two days after Howard slipped Peace Corps in South America and
away, a passenger listed as "Ed- the United States. From 1976 to
ward Howard" took an American 1979, he worked in Peru for the
Airlines flight from Albuquerque to Agency for International Develop-
Dallas. The next morning, Sept. 23, ment, according to the State De-
the Federal Bureau of Investigation partment.
issued an arrest warrant for the After earning a master's degree
fugitive analyst but, by then, he was in business administration from
gone. American University, he went to
News that this quiet, generally work for the CIA, where he was
mild-mannered - young economist employed from 1981 until spring
might have been a U.S. agent work- 1983.
ing for the KGB stunned and elec- In June 1983, he moved to Santa
trified his coworkers here. Equally Fe. His coworkers said they did not
surprised, evidently, was Howard's know what prompted the move.
wife. He applied for a job as an analyst
Philip Baca, Howard's boss in the with the state Legislative Finance
state government, said he came Committee, a joint budget-planning
into his office on the night of Sept. body serving both chambers of the
22 and found a letter of resignation legislature. He told his bosses that
from Howard. In it, Howard asked he had been employed by the State
coworkers to clean out his desk and Department but left State because
said he hoped "some day to be able he and his wife did not want to ac-
to explain this to you and the rest of cept an imminent posting to Mos-
the staff." cow.
Baca said he immediately called It is fairly common for CIA co-
Howard's home and reached Mary vert operatives to work under dip-
Howard. , e aa4 ghe expressed as- lomatic cover for the State Depart-
tonishment th* ber husband had meet.
'3ttts. tom` l;oye:been
t d1y'of the se- wagnrart,iind" wlf he was
fact Committee on Intelligence also able` to. leave; Sanh.: F'e before an
said that, based on briefings e- arrest warrant was
cawed by.thie p=4 I 'would not Co 'I a - '_ and oei bore said
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e buLJ.A?rLli MESS
4 October 1985
ac'Y 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 him when agents interviewed him directly on 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 the Soviet Union
secret information about how the United States gathers intelligence information
in Moscow.
to an ; eapioyee-'s firing. -he_test is: intended 'to=, cover a wide range of-subjects
And CBS News an 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 saw but -not ;.all ,ctrcuestances, a,failure can lead
from espian a to i M' +alifi te.fM~f p ,a t tom. { k;
with the Soviot ye
.-Either case .ou] -
so1pe time ulliler~~ t11e a
Asked what aottvated
Thursday, He
mas . t
over to the otner -sI4Ka
Curtis Porter.. who-_h
New Mexico..:
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a hingtan. 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 plus 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 his 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 Department, spokesman Charles Redman said 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.
affidavit filed in federal court in Albuquerque said FBI agents interviewed
Howard himself on 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,,, re3lgnation
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
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LOS ANGELES TIMES
4 October 1985
Spy Suspect: Likable Guy
or an Angry, Violent Man?
By ERIC MALNIC, Time, Staff Writer
SANTA FE, N. M.-People here
look back on spy suspect Edward
Lee Howard as two different per-
sons.
One was a "devoted family man,"
an outdoorsman-a "nice, friendly,
likable guy" who worked long and
hard and well at his job as an
economic analyst with the state
Legislature.
The other was a darkly private
man, a man who became angry,
even violent, when drinking-a
man who cultivated the friendship
of an associate with 'ties to the
nearby federal laboratories at Los
Alamos, where the government
does research work on secret
weapons systems.
People who knew the first Ed
Howard say they were amazed and
shocked to learn earlier this week
that he is a fugitive, a former CIA
employee now being sought as a
Soviet agent.
People who knew the second Ed
Howard seem to harbor little sur-
prise.
"He was a close friend of David
Abbey. and he knew Abbey had
had access to claeatfied information
at Los A1ama4' aae gasertt-
tb* gOtR"0!F
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nployed-would not
ate oRhee tbwal tok:I
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gat Toward had ever sought cbl =
e bran INpaet,::;,a.; : .
Cruces earlier this year, confirmed
Howard's friendship with Abbey
and said that "indirectly, Howard
could have had other contacts with
people at Los Alamos" through his
job with the finance committee.
State government sources said
that one of the mysteries about
Howard was the frequency with
which he left town on state-paid
business trips-"unusual for a state
known for its penury."
'HtDId Geed Work'
Porter admitted that "Ed used to
get ragged a lot about the out-of-
state travel he did for us, but he did
good work ... and no one ever
suggested he was up to anything
else."
Porter added, however, that "on
a trip I took with Ed to Boston, he
disappeared for a few hours ...."
"When he showed up, he had a
cut on his head," Porter said. "he
told us he had walked into a door,
cut himself and had to go to a
hospital to have it stitched up. I did
think that was odd ... .
"Later that night, we all had a
couple of cocktails," Porter said.
"> a get ng alurvy, ;
But the men told a different
story.
They said that Howard had
forced their car off the road with
his Jeep. They said that, when. they
gm out of their car, Howard ap-
Proached, poinft a .44-caliber
magnum pistol at them.
When they fled back to their car,
they said, Howard stuck the re-
volver through the driver's win-
dow and, during a struggle that
turned into a fistfight, the gun
discharged, putting a bullet hole in
the roof of the car.
Police recovered the pistol and
placed Howard under arrest. Later,
admitting that he had been drink-
ing prior to the incident, Howard
pleaded guilty to three counts of
aggravated battery.
Capitol sources said that, thanks
largely to letters of support from
leglalators attesting to his good
work, Howard got off with a sen-
tence of five years' probation.
"I wasn'tthat enthused about the
arrest," said Porter, who was How-
ard's supervisor at the time, "but
he told me that they'd worked
something out-that the whole
thing, basically, had been dropped.
I really didn't know what had
happened"
Porter said he had hired Howard
for the state job in 1983 "because he
seemed to be the best qualified
applicant." Howard's resume was
impressive:
Born in Alamagordo, in 1951, the
son of an Air Force master ser-
geant, Ed Howard attended various
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imply mentioned work
Mate Department, a con-
on the State Department dis-
putes.
"He said he had flunked several
of their Foreign Service tests but
had finally made it, only to find out
they wanted him to go to Moscow,"
Porter said. "He said that, with the
new baby (son Lee, now 2), he
didn't want to go because he didn't
want to raise a child there."
So Howard went to work for
Porter, moving with his wife and
son into a modest imitation-adobe
home on an acre of land' in a
subdivision about 15 miles south-
east of downtown Santa Fe.
When it came to Mary Howard,
all the neighbors sang praises.
"She's just a dear, sweet thing."
said Betty Dunstan. "She's very
open and friendly," said Bobbe
Dyer. "I liked her a lot," said Gary
Carlson.
When it came to Ed Howard, the
reviews were mixed.
Betty Dunstan found him "ex-
tremely pleasant, and good looking,
too." But Bobbe Dyer said that
Howard "had a wall around him-
he was a very hardman to know."
Described as IIafrlendly
Other neighbors, who asked not
to be named, described him as
"unfriendly"-"a man who'd rath-
er go off by himself and hunt than
join in the community volleyball
and things like that, the way Mary
did."
But, when it came to his work for
the state, everyone seems to agree
that Howard did a good job.
"He was very professional, very
knowledgeable, very bright and
very conscientious," said Carlson, a
fellow state employee.
"He was - very good-a,,-hard
worker," said Phil,Bat a, OW
cur-
? heat F1npe
said tohIEthat:dy
The neatdaP;govLio
a normal workday Bioa, se "l e
had a hewft
_ ha
talked about a meeting In Atdtin.
(Texas) that be was leaving for on
the 22nd..:.. _.
T a Stmday, but I
I? a%.a t
Letter Called Puzzllag
The letter puzzles Porter.
"Why would a spy on the run
leave his resignation on Phil's
desk?" Porter asked. "Why would
he bother?"
That same day, according to local
law enforcement officials, Howard
flew to Dallas and then to Austin.
And, as far as anyone here
knows-or is telling-that was the
last time anyone saw or heard from
Ed Howard.
On Monday, the 23rd, Baca talk-
ed on the phone with Mary How-
ard. "She said she didn't know
where he was-she didn't even
know he'd quit," Baca recalled.
That afternoon, federal officials
issued a warrant for Howard's
arrest.
On Tuesday, the 24th, Mary
Howard and her son flew to Minne-
sota to stay with her parents.
Two days later, on the 26th, local
law enforcement officers issued an
arrest warrant for Howard, arguing
that, by leaving the -state and
quitting his job without first con-
sulting with his probation officer.
Howard had violated the conditions
of his probation on the battery
II
counts.
FBI Searched Home
The next day, on the 27th, acting
on a search warrant issued in
Albuquerque, FBI agents moved in
and searched the Howard home
here. What, if anything, was found
has yet to be disclosed.
Last Tuesday, Mary Howard and
her 2-year-old son returned to the
little home in the suburb called El
Dorado and, the next morning, she
reportedly showed up for work at
her job at a local orthodontist's
office.
She has thus far avoided
era, and nei bo say ale hasn't.
EdHowae~
1
- went is o~-~ee;`' siww :;here
Curtis -Poe'ter`.>aid what b0Rh!la
.
himisvhyHawsirdwouldbeaspy.
"Did he`da ft fdtr money?" Porter
asked. "I do1A tLlak'sm
"I juatpa"t1lgti reitout."
AaaodatW Pr
Edward Lee Howard
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BALTIMORE SUN
4 October 1985
Missing spy suspect fled
while under FBI's watch
for-
far-
mer CIA employee accused of A M"tV
for the Soviet Union was under s-
vdllance by the FBI when he disap-
peared. Reagan administration offi-
cials said yesterday.
The FBI screwed up by letting
this
guy p.- one administration of-
ficial The FBI refused to comment on
whether another ex-CIA officer had
been identified by its eounterinteW-
gence agents after being named as a
spy by Vitaly Yurchenko, a high,
ranking Soviet otfdal who defected
to the west.
Elut government and conlpenalm
al a s have saild they e
oth-
er alleged double agents to be re-
vealed soon in what could produce a
major shake-up to the U.S. Intelli-
gence community.
The former CIA employee who
fled was Edward Lee Howard. 33.
who worked for the agency from
1981 to 1983 and has been chaeg
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 when he disappeared.
On Sept. 20, Mr. Howard unex-
pectedly quit his job and fled just
before F'BI agents were about to
question him concerning his alleged
espionage activtbm of dais said.
The FBI had Interviewed his
neighbors and associates in Santa
Fe. N.M.. where he worked as an
economic analyst for the state leg*
latum in an attenVt to build a
eno"o awe. fty said.
Although they said Mr. Howard
may nave been alerted 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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ON PAGE
BALTIMORE SUN
4 October 1985
Defector revives fear
01,41
of b1i `mole' at CIA
hey say that Mr. kngleton's
WASHINGTON (Reuter) - Die- mote hunt periodically caused parts
;insures by a key Soviet defector of the CU virtually to g *W to a halt.
ong some
nave reopened a question that has prppiptng criticism am
?ezlodfcally tied U.S. intelligence in CIA veterans of what they re 'ded
Knots: Is there a high-level Soviet as an overly zealous camp
'mole' in the Central Intelligence Former CIA official George Carver
said: The Soviets have been trYing
~U.S. intelligence sources say that to penetrate us for 40 years.
the defector. Vitaly Yurchenko. a course we need to be careful. but If
high official in the KGB. carne oveT you went on a great mole hunt the
to the West In Rome last summer. whole organization would seize up."
ba highly sensitive I Mr. Wallop said that the fear of
lion on that included names of of U.S. resurrecting the Angleton era has so
double agents. eroded U.S. spy-catching abilities
The dlsolosure of axw names Is that the United States has virtually
likely to produce e a shat e-up in the zero counterintelligence capability"
Anmican intelligence
declined to gI C and to thus highly vulnerable to KGB
the aaaoes aafd penetration.
detalhL Legislation passed In called
The Justice Department has said for the enlargement of196 mole-
tMr. iko,
by who CIA Is at an now n- hunting operations and for more
CIA hat -debrief
ed- d Yurdm
Ina lasd location by the h United analysis aimed at detecting false in-
datesplic in the formation planted by the KGB.
States. d kni. has implicated former CIA CIA Neither program has been Imple-
em - including former agent mented vigorously because inteW-
18 mod nths Howard. who left the agency genes officers are not committed to it
ect of a ago and is now thesub and do not like Investigators con-
)entree mslonalL who stantly questioning their loyalty as
Some been invo Mr. Angleton had done. Mr. Wallop
have been tnvoived congressional
ed in overseeing sold.
U.S. Intelligence. including Sen. Mal-
Ex-CIA Director Stansfleld Turn-
colm Wallop. R-Wyo.. believe that said in a book released this year
kGB moles are active in the CIA to- er
day. that Mr. Angleton's approach bor-
Mr. Wallop said he hoped that the dered on paranoia.
new revelations would fuel efforts to When a second Soviet defector,
uncover such itroles. Yuri Nosenko. cast doubt on Mr. Gol-
-We have managed to penetrate itsyn's story. Mr. Angleton ordered
the KM and its tnoonodvabie that Mr. Nosenlco to be locked in a small
cell. without a toothbrush or suf-
rner
we have such a corner on the d
dent food. for 3l yeas:
'
t-unle
t
wrote. Mr. N eenk was attfines In-
woeid'a morality that they havea.
ban able to do the same th S with a mated for 24 hours wttlwut a:
u&- &&. Walton, who left the $a>r a r,,.,.k_ __ ..~ _ _
Qomml
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8 October 1985
but weather records indicate that it
was obscured by stormy weather.
An intelligence source said that
the Soviet KGB defector 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.
Serve Haring on Spies
The defector, Vitaly Yurchenkol
left his tempoeary Soviet enat_
is amigmast In Rome. In August
and now is ia~.'he_,IIait. 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 plans 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 on, the
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Firing by CIA Possible Motive in Spy Case
By RONALD J. OSTROW and DOYLE McMANUS, Times Staff Writer,
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
'Motive of Reverie' Agency for International Develop-
ment revenge from September, 1976, until
or March, 1979, when he resigned.
disgruntlement has been known to Howard did not work for the CIA
be involved in other espionage when he was with AID, one Ad-
cases,' one official noted. ministration source said. The FBI
Another source said that it is has said that Howard worked for
not entirely clear whether (How- the CIA from January, 1961, to
and) had his final w
lki
a
ng papers J 1983
une..
(from the CIA) when he was first Meanwhile, an FBI source ac-
in contact with the Soviets." How- knowledged that Howard dropped
ever, he added that he understood from sight on the night of Sept. 21
Howard was not working for the while .FBI agents had him under
Soviets when he was carrying out surveillance at his home in a
CIA assignments. suburb of Santa Fe, N. M. But the
Intelligence sources have em- source emphasized that the agents
phasized that Howard was not a had no authority to arrest Howard
classic "mole--a spy who has until two days later, when they
infiltrated an intelligence agency obtained an arrest warrant.
to obtain information from it. "It was a loose-perimeter sur-
Those sources said that Howard veillance, not meant to contain
was discussing a CIA assignment at someone," the source said. He
the U.S. Embassy in Moscow under described Howard as "a trained
Department cover when he agent" and-said he eluded the FBI
a State was ftred.
agents in the early morning hours
Curtis - Porter, 'Howard's former of a -Moonless night." There was a
auperviso ,at the New Mexico Leg- _half asoo over Santa Fe that night.
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tion of the House Intelligence Comtmit-
{ tee, said: "I think there are a lot of Trip Austria In 184
questions yet. to be answered. I'm not Mr. Howard, who roes glow 33 years old,
sure anyone's comfortable with what was employed by the. Central Intelli-
from 9 ~91;I to
ence
we've seen so far." g
In an interview today, Mr. McCurdy' Junes-l according 1o-an-F.B.I. af-
would not discuss the specifics of the fidavit filed in Federal Dlstriox Court in
Howard case but said that he and some New Mexico: The document charged
other members of the committee had that he " traveled to Austria in 198!
been briefed by the C.I.A. Members of where he,asade contact with agent of
t the Senate committee have had similar the K G.B. and, was paid :may, for
briefings by the agency. ? classified information relating to U.S.
sources_ and: methods."
ntell4pace sources say that the in-
formation involved related to Amer-
ican operations in Moscow. They have
said Mr. Howard was'tral ned for a post
in Russia that would have involved
managing agents or other means of In-
telligence collection..
IntetHgence.souron any. however.
that he-was not sent to Moscow and was
instead awed to leavtitbe a Imy attar
the ~,p trUxt xVgglrp ttpe Of drugs gal "a-nd stty. tbeR of Govern:
ment funds.-
Mr. Howard,
who had been wo~rldng
for the New Mexico 1,eaprr~~~~
oieared' lint me.wh a ?1e * f n It
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Spy Charge Spurs Questions
About Procedures of C.I.A.
By STEPHEN ENGELBERG
Special to The Nee. York Times
i WASHINGTON, Oct. 7 - Members I According to members of the two
of the Senate and House intelligence committees and their aides, the panels
committees say espionage allegations are concerned about a broad range of
against a former Central Intelligence issues stemming from the agency's
Agency officer raise serious questions handling of Mr. Howard, who was
about the agency's procedures for deal- within the C.I A.'s three-year proha-
ing with disgruntled employees. tion pirritxl when he was asked to re-
The legislators say their eommutees sign.
are conducting it d(,raile,l . inn. list inn
of the career of Edward L. Howard, a Questions Raised With C.I.A.
former officer of the agency who, ac- Among the questions the two com-
cording to Administration officials,
was identified by a defector as having these ~s are raising with the agency are
sold the Soviet Union highly secret in- these
formation. Why was Mr. Howard, a junior offi-
Mr. Howard was forced to resign cial, given access to such sensitive ma-
from the C.I.A. in 1983; the agency was terial at an early stage in his career?
dissatisfied with his answers in a poly- 9Why did the agency choose to dis-
graph, or lie detector, examination miss him while the information he had
that was apparently unrelated to espio- learned in training for a posting to Mos-
nage charges. Officials have said they cow was still of value?
suspect it was a desire for revenge that What steps were taken to keep
led Mr. Howard, who is believed to track of Mr. Howard's movements
have fled the country, to provide se- after he left the C.I.A., both in this
crets to the Soviet Union. country and abroad, where the Federal
"The C.I.A. has good security proce- Bureau of Investigation has charged
dures but they're not perfect and that he met with Soviet intelligence
they're going to have to get better," agents?
Senator Patrick J. Leahy, the Vermont qWas there sufficient coordination
Democrat who is the vice chairman of between the C.I.A. and the F.B.I., the
the Senate Select Committee on Intelli_ other major Federal agency responsi-
gence, said in an interview. "They're ble for counterintelligence work?
going to have to figure out what to do Administration officials say Mr.
with a disgruntled or potentially dis- Howard was identified as an agent of
gruntled employee who has a lot of the Soviet Union by Vitaly Yurchenkn,
knowledge because that's where a lot of a senior official in the K.G.B., the '
breaches have occurred in the past." Soviet intelligence agency. He defected
C.I.A. Briefs Committees to the West in July. Mr. Yurchenko, the
ex-
Representative Dave McCurdy of officials have said, is undergoing ex-
tensive questioning at an undisclosed
Oklahoma, the chairman of the Sub- III
location in the United States.
on
mmittee
Oversi
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Sam Zagoria
The Spy
Who Came In
From Page 1
Most people read only one paper a
day, but there is a gaggle of news
groupies who compare newspaper
coverage for fun and occasionally are
lucky enough to get paid to do it.
Reading the Sept 27 Post, I wim
surprised to come across a story head-
lined, "Soviet Diplomat With KGB
Ties Defects to U.S."-surprised that
the head was only a single oohuan in
small-size type and that the story was
only five inches k>og.
Other Pbet-watchers were also air
some had seen a
5 hurt as it on Imes article
headed. o. Man for KUB Now SbW
m to CLV" an a a ' viread by
Ralph De Toledano in its hen
ombudsman ;
WASHINGTON POST
9 October 1985
The next day Poet national reporter
John Goshko patched together its five-
inch report, and the editors study it way
back on page A22. On the sane day.
The New York Times had a 20-itch co-
pod by Stephen Engelberg from Wash-
ington beginning on page 1-obviously
the paper considered the defection of
major importance.
in preparing their report. The Los
Angeles Tunes reporters pulled up on
their electronic information retrieval
screen some wire service reports orig-
nating in Italy in August, which told of
Humors circulating about a high-level
Soviet defection to the West, but did not
have specifics as to name or position.
The Los Angeles Times report noted
the earlier Washington Times story that
identified him as the No. 5 man in the
Soviet secret pohm
Where were The Post editors on all
this?
Their foreign desk "had a couple of
vague reports from the Italian prgls
that something had happen d,in Ron ,"
said Richard Weintraub, deputy foren4n
editor, but the reports, besides being
vague. "were at odds with each other."
Assistant Foreign Editor Al Moyne was
checking sources in Washington and
querying correspondents at but
immediate results were not,, orthoocr
ing.
Difficulty in obtaining such. informa-
section the same day with the tion in Washington or abread,is under-
-Missing standable---governments don't put out
li
11 W -gn tigu
nes 1 opv re to foll..w up on front-page material
while not igniting fi furs at The Pte, did in fir newspaper The Los Angeles Times Washing- in another newspaper or to use informs-
g. Rosid lion available from a newspaper brother.
ton bureau to begin dwddo Me L4= Avedw T?A
Ostrow, who covers Justice and doefrunes. sugessts an in-
e reporting, and Dale Last weer. Robert KsiieeG_ aeektatrt
McManus. who: aoms state std ski- :era. for ndtindi. new%
howl searity, kited '4 Oar wasn'tssper to rfiiraw do Hostler, but
trove said, "We load snort tlan4t tbes be &dsivk?% a very will _ 4t&
we saw 71* W1* Tuns
and the color l wed put--ms ,n 1be_ ps
Itbaf wi ' vid ed atse>ti~ea.- We
arras. We had floe sswl. pedbierhtq but
we got enougb__oo~tAinmstion and a dI dodt IKGL He lie lit oo -d the top
tional deli from U.S. sowe%-and we five inn the KiGB. He doesn't show up an
work ahead." erg we baveaeeo.
The rewak was a 1S dory, which "We as esuem* murk! story, but
were wodin$lendanitnow,"said W.
on Sept. 26. The same story appeo effAm. a former Pbet Moscow eorre-
an the Los Angdss T'imes~WasMiagEpn
Pbst New Service tidora at 8:28 pm, .? Q As Weokdml
EDT Sept 25, bus The Poet dd sot we may no the risk of overlooking aipda-
a Yoe of it. 'sot news. Ednbors who spine 15-inch
reports from newspaper partners, such
as The Los Angeles Times. bury a
chance to recover from such error. Poet
editors were slow-and late-getting
started. A five-in h story two days late
is more an admission of that than ade-
quate coverage of a major news devel-
opment.
This is one time when 'Ile Russians
are coming, the Russians are coming"
was literally true. An important Russian
did come over.
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WO-1K I it" e-) f ycT d'
VAME11E.
VITALY'S
FINGER
POINTS.
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RALPH DE TOLEDANO
LONDON
Accounts of the defection of
the KGB's No. 5 man,
Vitaly Yurchenko (other-
wise transliterated as
Dzhyrtchenko), first broken by me
and given international attention by
The Washington Times, have been
splashed over England's front pages
for several days. But though some
London newspapers have added
details of Mr. Yurchenko's back-
ground and activities, there has
been almost no delving into highly
important aspects and conse
quences of the case
What was Mr. Yurchcnko, herd of
the KGB's Division I and directnrof
all agents and moles outside the
because~~~e spas fearful that the Ital-
iatas "w0 -rat.= him to `Moscow.
The V4p>tican?notified ItalianForeign
Minister Andreotti, who was kept
fully informed of developments, and
arranged for turning Mr. Yurchenko
Over )o ClA officials in Rome.
'.Why did Vitalydefect at this titre?
question, it.is nec-
essary to go back to the emergence
of Mikhail. Gorbachev as Soviet dic-
tator:,after the death.of Konstantin
diernenko. Mn Gorbachev was a
Soviet Union,
doing in Rome?
Mr. Yurchenko
was sent to Italy
to "handle" Pro-
fessor Vladimir
Alexandrov, So-
viet delegate to a
nuclear confer-
ence in Sicily,
whose defection
was largely
ignored by the
Western press.
The mission of
Mr. Yurclicnko
and the KGB
agents accompa-
n tug him was to
kidnap or liyu
d;ate' Mr. Alexan-
dror.
Once in Ronne,
however, Mr. Yur-
chenko slipped
away from his
associates and
surrendered to
Vatican City
authorities.. He
creature of Mr. Chernenko's prede-
cessor and former head of the KGB,
Yuri Andropov. Mr. Gorbachev has
had close political, if not organ-
izational, ties with the KGB, which
was instrumental in making him the
new Soviet vozhd.
U nder Mr. Gorbachev, the KGB
again has assumed the vast
and murderous powers it
had under Lavrenti Beria during the
Stalin era. Today it is the dominant
force in the Soviet Union - "top
dog," as one expert on the Soviet
Union, puts it. As such, it has
launched a series of Stalin-type
purges of the Soviet hurcaucracc,
the military, and its own ranks. ltr-
nor a high;;anking, Soviet offi-
Yurchenko's defection?
-Mr~XwdWnkaA-Srri0W i0" {4kttM ..
1 dangeroitt one in
which he candny step.
Mr. Yurchenko "` use
he knew he wotb t ~o. find
sanctuary at the 'VlWtiicaq' where it
would be relatively?- s44 so make an
approach to the CIA , -
What are the consequences of Mr.
Ralph de Thkdaiio is a nationally not only aa: encyclopedieitppgvledgd
sY-ulictitemnist- of the identities of KGB agents,and
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moles in NATO intelligence and
counterintelligence services but
also up-to-date experience in its
operational methods.
(In the U.S., the FBI is continuing
its search for former CIA agent
Edward L. Howard, who is being
sought as a result of information
reportedly supplied by Mr.Yur-
chenko. Howard has been charged
with selling secrets to the Soviets. A
second ex-intelligence officer also is
believed to be under investigation in
the wake of Mr. Yurchenko's defec-
tion.]
Mr. Yurchenko is far more impor-
tant than Igor Gouzenko, the Soviet
lieutenant in the code room of the
tioviet Embassy- in 7bronto whose
documentoc disclosures broke open
an atom C espdottage' r3ttg in the
- or VladiimirPetrov, diplo-
3000
mat'who defected in Ausch ia. -
The only comparable defection is
western Europd
War II _Mi YurchetlTo c~tltt disrupt
KGB operations and dlsclo he full
extent "of: Sovskt penetr~[liop"of U.S.,
British, Itblisgtl,..and Latin
American intelligence services.
In. Nand, tbeese;arod times
for MI~+S aed#YfI-6, ahaidytietspect
have battened down their hatches in
expectation of the storm that Mr.
Yurchenko's disclosures will
unleash within the British govern-
ment. 'll'emors are also being felt at
the British foreign office, whose lax
security is common knowledge.
T here are very quiet hints of a
royal commission, on the
style of those that followed
the defections of Mr. Gouzenko in
1945 and Mr. Petrov in 1954. But the
likelihood of Such an investigation
seem., sm~di. ,ince it would embar
rass hwll: 11(m III
office and the British Party
are rough days
ahead for MI-S
and MI-6 as the
nature and extent
of KGB infiltra-
tion become
known to No. 10
Downing Street.
Both Britain's
intelligence and
counterintelli-
gence h ave
tended to take a
casual view of the
moles in their
midst perhaps
because these
moles have for the
most part worn
aid ~Chonl ties.
ilnl\ after the
I'h:Ibys, Bur-
ges,e,, ,Mcl,eans,
et al, have taken
refuge behind the
Iron Curtain has
MI-S and MI-6
indicated any con-
sternation.
Will Prime
Minister Marga-
ret Thatcher act with more ;vigor
than her predecessors? Though she
-still seems to remain in the thrall of
W. Gorbachev's"smile, 1 e -must
surely know that energetic action
will strengthen her hand against an
oppgsition in Parliament that contin-
ues to argue that we tpmst bot' be
beastly to the Russians -- hatelter,
their misdeeds.
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Probe set
by Senate
on agent
who fled
4 0 - js
By Bill Gertz
INt YJA=I1INGTCJN LMt.
The Senate Intelligence Commit-
tee yesterday launched an investiga-
tion into the case of former CIA
operative Edward Howard, a sus-
pected Soviet agent who disap-
peared two weeks ago and is
believed to have fled the United
States.
"The apparent defection of for-
mer CIA employee Edward Howard
raises serious questions about man-
agement, personnel and security
procedures at the Central Intelli-
gence Agency and the FBI," Intel-
ligence Committee chairman Dave
Durenberger, Minnesota Republi-
can, and vice chairman Patrick
Leahy, Vermont Democrat, said in a
statement.
Howard two weeks agog eluded an
FBI surveillance net around his
house outside Santa Fe. N.M. An
arrest warrant was issued by the
FBI last Wednesday charging How-
ard with passing U.S. defense
secrets to a foreign power, believed
to be the Soviet Union.
Howard reportedly met with offi-
cials of the Soviet KGB intelligence
service in Vienna last year and is
suspected of selling secret CIA
operational data to the KGB.
The staff inquiry will examine the
agency's decision to hire Howard,
his'assignment-and?aetivities-in--he -
CIA, his dismissal and his actions
from the time he left the agency in
June 1983 until his disappearance in
New Mexico Sept. 21, the statement
said.
A committee spokesman said the
probe was limited to the Howard
case and would not examine another
reported case of a former CIA
employee suspected of spying for
the Soviets.
Both Howard and the unidentified
former CIA official are believed to
have been identified as Soviet agents
by former senior KGB official Vitaly
Yuchenko, who defected in Rome
Aug. 1.
The committee leaders said the
investigation was ordered under the
authority of the Intelligence Com-
mittee's oversight function and
would not "prejudge" the case or
jeopardize the FBI investigation into
the suspected espionage activit It's ''t
the two former CIA operations offi-
cers.
Intelligence sources said How-
ard, who was convicted of
aggravated battery last year follow-
ing a shooting incident in New
Mexico, was fired by the CIA in June
1983 after it was alleged he had used
illegal drugs and stolen agency
funds.
He reportedly turned to the Sovi-
ets with details of CIA operations as
a means of taking revenge against
the CIA and is believed to have
helped the Soviets uncover a Mos-
cow agent who worked for the CIA.
An FBI affidavit said Howard left
behind a note in New Mexico that
hinted that he planned to turn over
CIA secrets to the Soviets during his
flight. Officials believe Howard may
have fled to Europe or Mexico.
Intelligence Committee
spokesman Dave Holiday said the
investigation would begin immedi-
ately and might lead to hearings.
He said the inquiry grew out of
questions about how Howard was
hired by the CIA in the first place.-
Mr..-Holiday also said-the commit-
tee- bad cbtnpleted a AW'VOW'M
the 7orp US. integencb
co ..
counieespy1It cam
abilities and would hold closed hear-
ings on the subject this month. '
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&&PPEARED
Nation
Spy Slipup
A suspect vanishes
T he strange saga of espionage cross-
overs that has kept heads spinning in
intelligence communities East and West
took yet another turn last week. In this
round, Washington was the victim. U.S.
officials acknowledged that an ex-CU of-
ficer had been fingered as a Soviet spy by
Vitaly Yurchenko, a top-ranking official
of the KGB. Moscow's intelligence organi-
zation. who defected to the West in July.
The accused agent was identified as Ed-
ward Lee Howard, 33, who worked for the
CIA as recently as June 1983, evidently in
the agency's clandestine service. As if that
were not damaging enough, officials also
disclosed that Howard suddenly vanished
two weeks ago, after learning that he was
the target of an FBI surveillance opera-
tion. The feds, said one U.S. official weari-
ly, "muffed it."
Howard, a former project-develop-
ment officer for the Agency for Interna-
tional Development, joined the CIA in
1981. Agency officials refuse to discuss his
precise duties, but Howard came so close
to accepting a Moscow assignment in
1983 that he was given a State Depart-
ment "cover" as a budget analyst. How-
ard's training for Moscow included details
on U.S. clandestine operations in the So-
viet Union.
After Howard failed a routine lie de-
tector test, the posting was canceled, and
he was fired by the agency. Howard re-
turned to his native New Mexico and be-
came a bona fide economic analyst for the
state legislative finance committee, After
Yurchenko began identifying' LOB "as-
TIME
14 October 1985
sets" in the U S. during a lengthy debrief-
ing, the FBI started a thorough back-
ground check on Howard, including
interviews with co-workers and neigh-
bors. Howard was last seen at his office on
Sept. 21, a Saturday. The next day his su-
pervisor found a letter announcing his
resignation for "personal reasons." It is
assumed that Howard fled to Mexico, per-
haps through Dallas.
How valuable an asset Howard was
for the KGB is a matter of some dispute.
The CIA insists that he was never a double
agent, working for the Soviets at the same
time he was an agency employee. In an
affidavit filed last week in Albuquerque,
the FBI said a confidential source claimed
that Howard sold information to the KGB
last year in Europe. Senator Dave Duren-
berger, the Minnesota Republican who
chairs the Select Committee on Intelli-
gence, told CBS News that Howard could
have caused a security leak "as serious as
anything this country has seen in the
past." Howard's case, moreover, may be
just the beginning. U.S. sources told TIME
that as many as five more Americans may
be indicted for espionage on the basis of
Yuuchenko's debriefing, perhaps as early
as this week. a
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Taking Revenge on the CIA?
The Central Intelligence Agency expect-
ed Soviet spy Vitaly Yurchenko to name
names when he defected last month from
his high-leml intclligcnccpost in Musco?.
That can bea painful process, ,, .
ing problem and sonic petit thefts.
After Iloward was tired, he ser%ed as a
budget analyst tort he Ness \lrsicoI ':isla-
ture \cherc he w: s. >;,< a III, ,ar
and the.a en wassuti`c
3
rare
: 7?
formes Peace '
'1eetnnd pro a t'
nc
I r~ba,
velopment,Ipt?uetk eE1
the CIA ordered himto:Mos=
cow-but t Aire ged, ring
itim after'a~1k-detector, test
reportedly revealed a-drink- Howard::lfissing
employee. But he had otl-
:fbe-job problems, including
eS,accoraingro oven]-
ax
:hlg' Ciow1W d
''s'tn-.Moscow,to ;aIIdzi
aboutifwith-Somefottnei;i
:
leagues stilh-in the CIA.:Ay
stronger than anyideological
said later, although Howard allegedly was
paid after meeting twice with KGB agents
in Europe. Just what he may have passed
along is not clear, but the case is particular-
ly worrisome because Howard had been
well briefed for his aborted Moscow assign-
ment-with actress-A hi ty liissified in-
~~a "tom
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Spy Slipup
A suspect VuFii.chPS
T he strange saga of espionage cross-
overs that has kept heads spinning in
intelligence communities East and West
took yet another turn last week. In this
round. Washington was the victim U S
officials acknowledged that an ex-CIA of-
ficer had been fingered as a Soviet spy by
Vitaly Yurchenko, a top-ranking official
of the KGB, Moscow's intelligence organi-
rttion. who defected to ttie WCst in Juiv
'1 he accn,cd q'cnt ?as u;cHrli l ,i, I
h~ Lilac! .~; .III iu:?.?i,~n,c ,,~~i,~
lion l he Ic.1, ..iiJ nnc' l S ..rti. .r! tic;,ri
ly, mulled it
Howard, a former project-develop-
ment officer for the Agency for Interna-
tional Development, joined the CIA in
1981. Agency officials refuse to discuss his
precise duties, but Howard came so close
to accepting a Moscow assignment in
1983 th
h
i
at
e was g
ven a State Depart
-
ment "cover" as a budget analyst Iloxk-
ard's training for Moscow included detail'
on U.S. clandestine operations in the
set Union
.\ftet III ,.:IIeC cc
i tutor test, the Ih siIrlh ?;r, anceietl ml,!
he was fired h~. t'c as'encc 11(-.,:,!o !c
turned to Ins
Caine a I),nr....,!c
state legislau~c Lnance .nnu uur: ~';: ,
Yurchcnko
scls :n the l; S ~iunnr a IsHr h. ,~ch:a.
mg. the fill started -i thorough hack-
ground check on Iloward. including
interviews with co-workers and neigh-
bors. Howard was last seen at his office on
Sept. 21, a Saturday. The next day his su-
pervisor found a letter announcing his i
resignation for "personal reasons." It is
assumed that Howard fled to Mexico, per-
haps through Dallas.
How valuable an asset Howard was
for the-KGB-is a matter of some dispute.
The CIA insists that he was never a double
agent, working for the Soviets at the same
time he was an agency employee. In an
affidavit filed last week in Albuquerque,
the FBI said a confidential source claimed
that Howard sold information to the KGB
last year in Europe. Senator Dave Duren-
berger, the Minnesota Republican who
chairs the Select Committee on Intelli-
gence, told CBS News that Howard could
have caused a security leak "as serious as
anything this country has seen in the
Past." Howard's case, moreover, may be
just the beginning. U.S. sources told TIME
+., _ .... s many as uvo murv nmenc am-xmy
be i
di
d f
i
i
n
cte
or esp
onage on the bu
? .
sF
s debrie , perhaps as early.
.
Las" this week.
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OFFICIALS SAY C.I.A.
DID NOT TELL F.B.I.
OF SPY CASE MOVES
Court Papers Assert Suspect
Told Colleagues He Might
Give Secrets to Soviet
ti o~~f
The Jrr(incirr. article is nosed _r,
porting b~ S1cphen Engelberg uni
Brinhlev and von written by Mr. Hr rn
ley.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 10 - The Cen-
tral Intelligence Agency failed to notify
the Federal Bureau of Investigation
after it learned more than a year ago
that Edward L. Howard was consider-
.ing becoming a Soviet spy, Govern-
ment officials, said today.
According to court records, Mr. How-
ard told two agency employees in Sep-
tember 1984 that he was thinking of dis-
closing classified information to the
Soviet Union.
Soviet Defector Was the Key
The bureau has sole responsibility
for domestic espionage investigations
and, under Federal law, the intelli-
gence agency and all other Govern- 9A
ment agencies are supposed to report
suspected espionage to the F. B. I. It is
illegal for the C.I.A. or any other Fed-
eral agency to carry out surveillance or
other actions within the United Stater
to stop potential spies.
Mr. Howard, 33 years old, a former
The bureau began surveillance of
Mr. Howard last moth but heelipped 1
out of his home a>4ht and is believed
Coatj=W skl ip Ma~Co- 4
has eSpi.
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C.I.A. Moves in Spy Case Criticized
to spy or was spying, committee mem-
bers said.
to have fled the country. "We've had a few blatant cases
Senator Patrick J. Leahy, the Ver- where we just didn't follow through,
mont Democrat who is vice chairman even with alarm bells going off," said
of the Select Committee on InteW- Representative Dave McCurdy, Demo-
gence, said today: "If the C.I.A. did not crat of Oklahoma, chairman of the
give the F.B.I. adequate information House committee's Subcommittee on
about this person, that's a bad mistake.
It shows very, very serious problems
within the C.I.A."
In the last few weeks the C.I.A.
transferred the chief of its office of se-
curity, William Kotopish, to a new job
at a level of equivalent seniority, but an
official said the move had been planned
"for some time" and was not related to
the Howard case.
Mr. Howard worked for the agency
from 1981 to 1983. He was told of classi-
fied American intelligence operations
in Moscow because the agency was
planning to assign him there, officials
have said.
According to a criminal complaint on
-file in Federal District Court in Albu-
querque, N.M., Mr. Howard told two
current employees of the intelligence
agency a year ago last month that he
had "spent hours in the vicinity of the
Soviet Embassy trying to decide
whether to enter the embassy and dis-
close classified information."
An F.B.I. affidavit says the conver?
sation was held Sept. 24, 1984. Four
days before that, the Government con-
tends, Mr. Howard gave his informa-
tion to Soviet officials in St. Anton, Aus-
tria.
cess to classified
George Lauder, a C.I.A. spokesman,
4.3 million peop
said today that as a result of that con- associs
versation "action was taken" within, clears
the agency "and it seemed to be rea-
fttioo. ..
sonable action-at the time." He would
e was :al #?s 4 he Central
not say what to
t
an oftickd-6 d'me
tact with'
satiba'wi
The Senate and House intehigece beep ? II . It's strlWy an
committees are investigating tt .
the study ban- F? I
dung of he Howard Cktie.'ke - 'ly[im4aota
, cacti lase mbdfbets~a~dd, to of an
will. be haw? the C.I and
des 'deal'wIrh wet! ` tbs
Government; service with . d Per - . re-
clasaified knowledge about _ sesleStie tom.. 0L difed ma-
'ograms.
Another element of 'the inveeitlga. - gst.Ved Ie*lt
#etxnritycdesrances
.
Lions will, be several recent espionave work for the +e tagon At the Defense
Cases in aich?,Gciverameat ofII grtl ept.."1L. aria Sn1der', director
failed to heed waiAing sigfis,that a " og otalWise --,,and, security 77
Oversight and Evaluaton.
In the Howard case, a senior F.B.I.
official said Mr. Howard's conversa-
tion with the two C.I.A. officers would
have been sufficient to warrant an in-
vestigation.
"Anytime we get information that
someone has considered such an act,
we would take some action," said Phil-
lip A. Parker, deputy assistant director
of the bureau's intelligence division.
An intelligence official said the
C.I.A.'s decision to handle the matter
internally rather than report it to the
F.B.I. was ?'a judgment call," adding,
"If you reported every fantasy that
d have everyone
and r' lraatrrllance..
Law Bars C.I.A. Moves In U.S.
The C.I.A would not say whether it
undertook any form of inquiry after
Mr. Howard told ?the two C.I.A. em-
ployees he had considered becoming a
Soviet spy. But Federal law and a
Presidential executive order prohibit
the agency from taking any steps in-
side the United States to investigate
possible cases of espionage.
Mr. Howard was one of tens of thou-
sands of people who retire from Gov-
ernment or industry each year after
holding positions that gave them ac-
materials. More than
le in government and
policy, said: "We don't have any juris-
diction of any kind over former em-
ployees, whether or not they had clear-
ances. It's strictly the F.B.I."
At the F.B.I., Mr. Parker said, "We
are not concerned about Americans
who have had clearances. We don't
look at these people unless we detect an
individual involved in espionage.-
Ex-Intelligence Chief's Moves
Senator Leahy said: "i don't think
an?:one expects the F.lu -I. to :maintain
surveillance on the several hundred
thousand people who leave the Govern-
ment each year with security clear-
ances. But there are a certain number
of people in extremely sensitive posi-
tions, a handful of them, that we ought
to do more with."
Mr. Leahy said Mr. Howard "cer-
tainly would have been one of those"
because he held highly sensitive infor-
mation and was being dismissedfollow-
Ing a polygraph examination that. indi-
cated drug use and petty thievery, ac-
cording to Federal officials. '
When Adm. Stansfield M. Turner
was Director of Central Intelligence in
the Carter Administration, he dis-
missed, transferred or forced to retire
nearly 200 C.I.A. officers who held
highly sensitive positions.
In an interview this week, he said
that others in the agency had warned
him that "we ran the risk of some of
them selling their information to the
other side." He said he had disagreed
when it was suggested that some
should be given other jobs, and pro-
ceeded with his original plans.
But he said of Mr. Howard: "I don't
think my rule should be totally rigid. If
this guy had just been briefed, I'd say
let's stick him in the Dominican Repub-
lic or someplace.like that.for a c tpie,
of years, until. the''faformauon' ISn't'
? sepal t''We me eyed
some sort
oft ' ~.a
s for some of I t-11,
agree when ths0r,ate hired that "for
three years or soaftet' they leave,?they
will be subject to the same rules of tn,
tnndon`as rRheet: they: wez in
goyernntentt cis come back4
random.polygra tioea.$iiftt
would' give 3henr ;.ane- Saone thing to,
worry about before-they turn."
A C.I.A. offidal'said "it's &t-
-able" that that idea would work,'add-
ing that finding solutions to the prob-
lem "is certainly something we're
thinking about now."
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U.S. Discloses Defection of Senior KGB Officer
United Press International North American department of the
The State Department confirmed
yesterday that Vitaly Yurchenko, a
senior Soviet KGB officer, has de-
Iccted to the United States.
The department sod Yurchinko,
:lua arrived in the United State, iii
;1ut:ust, had rcyuested his presence
kept secret until now.
T hi- State I)epartnnnt said Yur-
chertko was deputy chief in the
KGB's first directorate, the depart-
ment of foreign intelligence.
Yurchenkn is responsihlc for
the direction apt K(;li intrlhgi?nrr,
operation, in thr 17nited State; ,nil
lan;ada, the Si it( Department :nd.
'I it d, inntnaa nt also s;od \ jr
chenko had precunc.ly heen work-
in} with countetill elligencc and
had been posted to the Soviet em-
bassy in Washington as a diplomat.
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U. S , \EIiS Isr`RLD REPORT
14 October 198-
"Mole Hunt" on the Potomac
(:barges that it former officer of the
Central Intelligence Agency sold se-
crets to Moscow raised a chilling ques-
tion long nurtured by thriller writers:
Could a "mole" burrow into the heart
of the nation's spy agency:'
In a Year that has seen both the Navy
And the FBI nab accused
spies syorking from with-
in, the case of fugitive Ed-
ward Ilosyard pros oked
ii nediat~ ron~_erii that
tion had been
ii,vi~ tr,irr~{.
let iutrlligencr ufticrrls
insisted Howard should
n''t br disc ribed as a mole
err double agent. His il-
leged work for the Soviets
came after his 2y2 year
CIA stint ended in 1983.
He is suspected, howev-
er, by U.S. intelligence of
telling the KGB how
Accused Spies-
The Score Rises
ard. But one intelligence expert de- I
scribed his case this war: It is proof
that the system does work. He was
weeded out."
-What is virtually impossible," the
expert said, "is for a real mole to survive
in the agency long enough to rise to
where he can do serious
damage. The poll graph
sees to that
CL\ n~pli;s es undergo
IN-detector t'-,t, syhrn re-
cruited..re,un i ar the end
of their thr~ -scar proba-
tion. and ~~ r? tine "ears
thereafter..S it t.ilse ' an-
swer results ui dismissal-
and can trigger It fuliscale
in estigation if espionage
is even hinted at.
Howard lost his job over
American agents operate in Moscow,
perhaps dooming at least one Russian
contact of the CIA who has disap-
peared. "Its as serious as any damage
se'ye sustained in the recent past."
said Senator David Durenberger
(R- chairman of the Senate Intelli-
nce G~nnittee
Pw i 5-se:ir-old HosY-
.ird \% 'o fingered ,u a Soyi-
r't sps hr \ Italy Yur-
c!wrik~~. I high KGB
official oho defected to
the West in August. Yur-
chenko also named an ex-
employe of the superse-
cret National Security
Agency, which eaves-
drops on communications
around the world.
Howard slipped away from his
Santa Fe, N.M., home on a moon
less night in late September
while FBI agents stood watch
outside-and caught a plane for
Texas. He left behind his wife, a..
2-year-old son and & job with the
state legislature. When the '
charges were filed, the FBI war;
searching for hun worldwide.
He was fired by the CIA for
flunking a lie-detector teat.
Among the exam's 17 questions--
"Have you copied classified
documents? Have you used ille-
gal narcotics? Have you had any
homosexual experience?" CIA
officials refused to identify- the
question that tripped up Hovt!~. CIA
In its Lor.n.il com-
plaint, "h'. i itl -.rid that
HON;red tt i ustria a
year ago or i rendezvous
with the Sos iets-
U.S. courts are grappling with a
record number of espionage cases
this year-so far 10 persons have
been convicted and nine are on
trial, await trial or are fugitives.
The most spectacular case in-
volves John Walker, a former na-
val officer accused of passing se-
crets to the Soviets from the 1960s
on. Charged with him: His son
Michael, it friend. Jere' %t hit-
worth and lohn's brother Arthur.
who has since been convicted.
Richard Miller, the first FBI
agent ever accused of espionage,
is on trial in Los Angeles. Two
accused accomplices, both Rus-
sian emigres, pleaded guilty.
Sharon Scranage, a former CIA
clerk, last month pleaded guilty
to giving names of agents to her
Ghanaian boyfriend.
Howard's case may fuel a push in
Congress to reestablish specialists in
the agency trained to sniff out disloval-
tv. In 19-1:5. when the CIA was tinder
attack in Congress, then CIA Director
William Colby disbanded such a team.
Bringing it back now would please
some old (.IA hands, distress others.
Warned one of them: The paralysis
resulting from a full-blown 'mole hunt'
could do more damage than am [Hole
possibly could." E
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some lesser fault, then
went away mad-and
well-versed in the agent-
handling and data-collec-
tion techniques used by the CIA'inside
the Soviet Union. He was being briefed
for a transfer to Moscow is hen fired.
In New Mexico. Howard displayed no
ideological ties to the Sos :u?t I nion. said
friends, who characterized his political
views as consers atiye.
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Soviet
defector
led KGB
in U.S.
By B Gcrt. /Y ot-i Y
Senor Soviet KGl defector
Vitaly Yurchenko has been identi-
fied as Moscow's top North
American spy operations expert,
according to the U.S. State Depart-
ment.
After weeks of official silence, the
State Department saidthat Mr. Yur-
chenko has been in the United States
Experts say KGB still "linchpin"
of communist rule. Page 4A.
"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."
see KGB, page 8A
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From page ]A
\lr 1'urchrnko "had previously.
,asked that hp, presence here nit he
puh!icizrd " the sHternent ,;aid,
?..\Ir Yurchenko xiis specifically
c~lumsihlc far KGIi intelhg(-ncc
)perrrtions in the ['rated State, 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
er.ibassy in Washington between
19'5 and 1980, the State Department
said.
As deputy chief in the North
American department, Mr. Yur-
chenko wvrnold have directed several
categories of KGB operations in the
United States and Canada.
These activities, according to one
intelligence expert who declined to
be identified, would have included
political, military and technological
espionage, such as handling Ameri-
carisand foreign nationals spying for
\loscow; "active me;rsrire,;' var-
ious covert action and ''disinfor-
oratloll" progca ms, acid a uetm rk of
..illegal" agents operrring indepen
dently of Soviet and bast bloc diplo-
matic representatives.
The statement provided no dates
for Mr. Yurchenko's duties before or
after his 1980 posting in Washington.
But he is believed to have directed
KGB counterintelligence operations
after leaving the Soviet embassy in
Washington and prior to his promo-
tion to chief of the North American
department, a post he held until Aug.
1.
The State Department identified
Mr. Yurchenko's counterspy role as
"chief of Department 5 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 ;ind East bloc
agents and the inforrn;rtn it they
pro- the KGB and GBI'. the intel-
Lt;encc expert said
Intelligence sources close to Mr.
Yurchenko's debriefing said the
KGB officer has been providing U.S.
authorities with a windfall of intelli-
gence data about KGB operations
and operational methods since
August. His debriefing by Justice
Department and CIA officials began
then at an undisclosed location in the
United States and is expected tocon-
tinue for several years, these
sources said.
So far, Mr. Yurchenko has uncov-
ered two Americans - both former
CIA operations officers - who are
suspected of spying for the Soviet
Union after leaving the agency.
:One
of the former CIA operatives,
Edward Lee Howard, eluded FBI
surveillance agents late last month
in New Mexico. He is being sought
on espionage charges and is believed
to have fled the country.
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U.S. Intel1igenc1Fiasco
13y WtwAM; KUCEWICZ
The KGB tooLt he unusual step last
month of Iss r hg at can only, be called a
press release.; In a statement distributed
oy the offld .TABS hews agency, the. So.
viet intgllige ce -agency accused a Soviet
atiuln of sp ng for the U.S. and also an-
pounced the expulsion of a U.S. Embassy
The KGB the suspected spy as
A.G. Tolka He was identified merely
as a staff me ber of a "Moscow research
institute." N other details about his back-
ground were provided. His arrest appar-
ently took pl ce sometime In early June.
The announcement maintained that Mr.
Tolkachev haad been caught passing infor?
mation to anlAmerican diplomat, Paul M.
Stombaugh', the U.S. Embassy's political
section. Mr. Stombaugh was ordered to
leave the So et Union June 14.' The KGB
three-month
kachev's a
pulsion.
ve no explanation for the
lelay in announcing Mr. Tol-
st and Mr. Stombaugh's ex-
cow interpre
viets for sp
sponded In k
had been trl
for years.
ship by Soviet authorities. A
Britain had expelled 31 So-
g and the Soviet Union re-
d by ousting an equal num-
In Moscow, This exchange
jLondon, who had apparently
ust another spy maneuver.
Valuable Hainan Asset
That was t the real story, however. Ac?'
cording to igh?level U.S. Intelligence
sources, Mr Tolkachev was one of the
Central Intelligence Agency's most valua?
bit human sets In the Soviet Union. And
his exposure and arrest stand as Indict.
menu of mismanagement and inepti-
tude reachin to the highest levels of U.S.
contellience operations.
r aviation' Institute :, InMos?
ance and counter'
dar; and so-called
lgttlhg edge of mil.
? have also Upped the
-phased-array radar at
t tt +Ide anti-ballistic.
"He saved us billions of dollars in develop-
ment costs" by telling the U.S. about the
,C direction of Soviet aviation efforts. In that
way, American researchers could more
precisely target their own work toward
countering future Russian military
threats,
U.S. Intelligence experts believe that
Mr, Tolkachev is fated for execution, If he
Is not already dead. But how, was he dis?
covered? And why did the KGB wait three
months before announcing his arrest?
Mr. Tolkachev wasn't merely caught In
the act of passing secrets to the U.S. Em-
ba_ssy's Mr. Stombaugh, as the KGB
claims. In fact, as U.S. intelligence sources
was hired. In April 1982, Mr. McMahon
was named by President Reagan to re-
place Adm. Bobby R. Inman as deputy-in-
telligence director.
In spring 1983, Mr. Howard was told to
resign or he'd be fired. Mr. McMahon took
this step despite Mr. Howard's privileged
knowledge of U.S. Intelligence operations
in Moscow, and what his continued drug
use said about his emotional stability.
(Later, In February 1984, Mr. Howard was
arrested for brandishing a pistol at three
men in downtown Santa Fe, N.M.; In a
plea bargain, he pleaded guilty to an as-
sault charge and was sentenced to proba.
tion.) Instead of firing him, intelligence ex-
Edward Howard, an untried and untested trainee
suspected earlier of drug t,
critical U.S. human intelli
tell It, he was betrayed by a former CIA
agent, Edward L. Howard. And the KGB's
peculiar September announcement was ap-
parently a ruse to try to put U.S. counter-
Intelligence officers off the scent of this
turncoat.
Mr, Howard, who is now 33, joined the
CIA in January 1981. An initial polygraph
test Indicated that he was an occasional
drug user. Agency officials told him to end
his drug-taking or face dismissal. He then
promised to give up drugs.
Shortly thereafter, he entered an inten?
sive, 2S4?year training program to become
a "deep' cover" case office! In the U.S.
Embassy, In Moscow., One of his assign.
ments would be to '::run" Mr. Tolkachev;
in other words, 'hewas to collect Mr. Tol-
kachev's mate!rlals at "'dead drop" sites
in Moscow and tq.,care'ifor his needs. In the
course of his trahllttt~ this untried and un-
tested trainee wa.s, hiexcusably, told about
critical U.S. hutrtan`Intelligence operations
In Moscow; he was;,Rven informed about
anU?Soviot operatiott$ in the U.S. Mr. How-
ard was also trained for several months by
the Federal Bure;u`of Inves*gation in sur-
veillance technlques,,;and evasion.
Before being dispatched to Moscow, Mr.
Howard was given another polygraph test,
which suggested that his drug use had con.
tinued and also Indicated at least one in-
stance of petty theft outside- the govern-
ment. According to sources who have long
been critical of shortcomings in U.S. coun-
terintelligence capability, Deputy Director
of Central Intelligence John N. McMahon
at this point decided he wanted Mr. How?
ard out of the agency. Mr. McMahon, a ca.
reer intelligence officer for more than 30
years, had been the CIA's executive di?
rector, responsible for the day-to-day man-
agement of the agency, when Mr. Howard
perts suggest, a more sensible course
might have been to cancel Mr. Howard's
transfer to Moscow but retain him in a
nonsensitive area of the agency where his
actions could be closely monitored.
(Mr. McMahon didn't return a phone
call yesterday requesting comment.) '
In September 1984, Mr. Hoovard'told two
of his former' colleagues it the CIA that
he was thinking ot'passing his information
to the Soviets as an act of revenge, accord-
Ing to documents tiled In a Justice Depart.
ment criminal complaint against him.
These agents then told the proper CIA au?
thorities about Mr. Howard's threat. But
the agency's only response was to get a
psychiatrist for Mr. Howard In New Mex.
lco, where the CIA had helped him find a
lob as an economic analyst with the state
government back in June 1983.
Meanwhile, a momentous event was oc-
curring a continent away that would
darken further the profile of Edward How-
ard. On July 28 of this year, in Rome, a
visiting Soviet official was taking a stroll
with some colleagues. He told them that he
would meet themback at the embassy af-
ter he toured the Vatican museum. His So-
viet compatriots never saw him again, and
a month later he was In the U.S. being de.
briefed by the CIA. The Soviet official Is
Vitaly Yurchenko of the KGB. By many
accounts, he is one of the most Important
Soviet defectors in recent history.
The State Department officially an-
nounced Mr. Yurchenko's defection last
week. He was deputy chief of the North
American department of the -KGB's First
Chief Directorate, which Is in charge of the
Soviet Union's world-wide spy operations.
He was "specifically responsible for the di-
rection of KGB intelligence operations in
the U.S. and Canada," the State Depart-
agent1," sale another; well-placed source.
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terintelligence program itch alms to
root out any Russian molt orking for the
U.S. or other foreign governments. Pre-
viously. Mr. Yurchenko served as a spy in
the Soviet Embassy In Washington from
1915 to 1980. As a result of these positions,
Mr, Yurchenko was able to gain a broad
understanding of the highly compartmen?
talized operations of the KGB.
Mr. Yurchenko gave his debriefers a
code name for a former CIA agent who
had supplied valuable'information to the
KGB. While he did not have the real.,name
of the agent, Mr. Yurrhenkoudid provide.
petted spy,l said law eitoriement' sofa
whb asked hot to be identified. According
to other sources famllar with the debrief.
ing, Mr. Yurchenko said that this former
CIA agent had provided the KGB with de-
tails about U.S. human Intelligence activi.
ties in Moscow, including the identity of
A,G, Tolkachev. Mr. Howard's revelations,
therefore, prompted Mr. Tolkachev's ar
rest and likely execution.
Major Foul-Up
FBI agents were Instructed to interview
Mr. Howard but not to arrest him. Ex-
plained a law-enforcement source: The
Information provided by the defector,
standing alone, was not sufficient to estab?
lish probable cause.'' After he was quizzed,
FBI agents kept Mr. Howard under sur?
veillance. In a major foul-up, however, no
one ever told the FBI agents that Mr. How-
ard had been schooled by the bureau Itself
in surveillance and evasion tactics.
On the moonless night of Sept. 21, Mr.
Howard escaped his FBI watchdogs. On
Sept, 23, the FBI Issued a warrant for his
arrest, but It was too late. U.S. intelligence
finally succeeded In tracing Mr. Howard's
trail to Finland and then to Moscow, where
he is now presumably being debriefed on
all he knows about U.S. spying operations
In the Soviet Union and elseAhere.
''The United States has virtually zero
countenntelligence capability,'Sen. Mal?
colm Wallop (R., Wyo.) said recently in
criticizing the CIA's and FBI's failures in
the Howard case. Some experts are pre.
dicting a major shakeup in Intelligence
management due to the Howard?Tolka?
chev?Yurchenko affair. What will remain
after blame is assessed, of course, is that
the U.S. has lost one of its most valuable
human assets in the Soviet Union and his
alleged betrayer has fled safely to Mos?
cow.
Mr. Kucewicz is a member of 1he Jour.
nal's editorial board.
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A10 FRIDAY. OCTOBER 18, 1985
Soviet Seized as U.S.$py-
Said Exposed~ by -Howard
Renegade CIA Officer Still Missing
By Patrick E. Tyler
Waxh,0Qtn? Po+t Staff Wr,ter
his expo:>ure by lioward[ and ar-
rest stand as indictments of cross
misnlanagement and ineptitude
A well-placed Soviet aviation and reaching to the highest level; of
electronics expert arrested by So- U.S. counterintelligence opcra-
viet security agents in June for lions."
passing secrets to the Central In The CIA had no official comment
telligence Agency was exposed by on the journal report, but several
former CIA officer Edward L. How- intelligence community sources in-
-ard, who eluded, capture in New dicated that information fed by
Mexico last month, according to Howard to Soviet intelligence of-
intelligence community sources. ficials over the last year led to ex-
Howard, fired by the CIA in June posure of Tolkachev.
1983, allegedly began selling se- The Soviet was described as a
crets to Soviet intelligence last Oc-
tober. He fled his home outside research institute expert in new
Santa Fe Sept..21 while under sur- aircraft technology, inciudint ad
veillance by FBI agents and is pre- vanced avionics, electronic counter-
sumed to be in the Soviet Union measures, radar and "stealth" tech-
authorities said. nologies- to conceal aircraft and
The Soviet expert, cruise missiles.
Tolkachev, was first. identified ass- "[Tolkachev] saved us billions of
U.S. spy in. reports by: the Soviet dollars in development costs," The
news agency Tass Sept. 20. Journal quoted a "well-placed
in The Wall Street journal yes- source" s saving.
terday, editorial writer William Ku Inteiligence officials also con-
cewicz reported, "Tolkachev, was firmed that Howard acknowledged
one of the CIA's most valuable hu- drug use when hired by the agency
man assets in the Soli ~ti x.1981 aad they said he was fired
after,acknowledging in a_1983 poly- -
graph examination, that he had..
failed to stop using drugs.
One CIA official said hiringB v
and despite acknowledged drug V8'41
should not be considered- surprising
in a social setting that included easy
access to recreational drugs, and
the official stressed that Howard
pledged to end drug use after join-
in}; the agency.
After that pledge, Howard then
etceted a training program to be-
conic :e CIA case officer in the U.S.
Embassy in Moscow. The Journal
said Howard was taught how to su-
pe ise Tolkachev as an agent,
which would have involved collect-
ing information clandestinely from
Tolkachev's work on Soviet aviation
projects.
Tass reported that KGB officials
who searched Tolkachev.'s apart-
ment in June found "miniature cam-
eras of a special design by means of
which he [Tolkachev] photographed
secret documents" along with
"codes and ciphers, quick-acting
two-way communiFatiO* adlo ap
espionage work.- T
At the time of,.Tolkachev'-ar-
M. Stombaugh, a U.S: Etttbassy 1p6
litical officer, alleging that he was a
CIA officer caught in the act, of re-
ceiving secrets "of a defense na
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.Indicates Ex-C.LA. Officer Rolped.4ZnmADf Ca
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= Iffy STEPHEN ENGELBERG Itelligence secrets.
Spedal to The New York Ti- Last month, in an announcement that
WASHINGTON, Oct. 17-An officer was read on Soviet television and dis-
, f gene
o ..no
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Unite tit- i
wtw 'providdiint~ American intelli-
gencewith valuable military informs.
Lion, Administration officials said to-
do & 'Officials said they believed that
the former C.I.A. officer, Edward L.
Howard, helped the Soviet authorities
to acres t'the researcher, A. G. Tolka-
chev;, akt -.Charges! yof spying for ; the
Unit+ tes,
ce *brce here said Mrr
Tol l on developing
electtotiies mill
craft; These would, t=
tb!o in-
dude radar sets and;various other elect
tropic . `coUntermeasurea". for delceiv-
Ing radar searches and jammintg radio
transmissions.'
One-Administration.offidal said to-
day that Mr. Howard, who fled ,00
last month, bad been traced as
fad ' `i>nd and to haye
o the' Sp'aty, tbw4ght He 4
the United s6twii cm chaVa
Pt gt 60vi0'ipet 1
cut .?" t t "- }..;
w ."; Dime'-cU1flnrueu press,
the K.G.B., the Soviet intelligence
agency, said it had arrested Mr. Tolka.
ehev and accused him of spying.
The announcement described him as
a staff member of one of Moscow's re-
search institutes and said he had been
caught trying to pass "secret materials
of a defense nature" to Paul M. Stom-
baugh, an official in the American Em-
lbassy in Moscow. The statement said
Mr& Stombaugh was an officer of the
C.I.A. and was expelled by the agency
;June 14.
'Persona Non .Grata' in Soviet;,
According to an account that ap-
peared in the Soviet Communist Party
newspaper: Pravda, the K.G.B. said
Mr. Tolkachev had been found with
"miniature cameras of a special de-
sign by means of which he photo-
graphed secret documents, as-well as
,means of cryptography, codes, ciphers,
tquick acting two-way communication
radio apparatus and other equipment
for espionage work.
, Mr. Toikachev's whereabouts have
not been determined. tie 'clisal. would not preclude employemnt at the
peared," an intelligence sourct aid C.i.A., provided the employee was n,
A ,spokesman for the Central Intel li- longer using drugs and did not lie abot.
it.
genre Agency declined t
o comment. At
the . State Department, a spokesman
Conftraned that Mr. Stombaugh, who
was '& second secretary of the united
States Embassy in Moscow, had t~ren
declared "persona non grata" by the
Soviet Union, but the spokesman would
not discuss allegations by the K.(; B
Mr. Howard was hired by the C.I.A.
in 1981, according to court papers filed
by the. Federal Bureau of Investiga-
tion.Officials have said he was trained
to be posted to Moscow and given ac-
cess to sensitive information about
American intelligence-gathering in the
Soviet capital.
Mr. Howard was forced to resign
ftitri the C.I.A. in 1983 after a poly-
graph, or lie detector test, indicated
that he had used drugs and engaged in
petty theft.
Officials said today that an earlier
polygraph examination, administered
when Mr. Howard joined the agency,
had found that he had previously tried
"recreational" drugs. the officials
said such a history of casual drug use
C.I.A. Defends Actions
Meanwhile, a senior Central Intelll,
gence official defended the agency's
handling of the Howard case, while de-
clining to be publicly identified. He
said that Mr. Howard's espionage was
uncovered when the agency arranged
the defection of Vitaly Yurchenko, a
high-ranking K.G.B. official. Mr. Yur-
chenko, officials have said, was respon-
sible for the K.G.B.'s American opera-
tions while he was serving in the Soviet
Embassy here from 1975 to 1980.
"It was our efforts that found the
guy, we got the defector, we busted the
case, we fired Howard." the C I.A. offi-
cial said. "What were we supposed to
do?"
He said Mr. Howard was the only
Soviet agent with C.I.A. ties to be iden-
tified by Mr. Yurchenko. "So one gu'-
turns out to be a bad apple," the officia:
said. "That the only one I know of that
the defector has identified and he was
in a position to know if there were
others."
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Spy suspect tracked to Finland
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
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 yesterday.
Th-o administration sources, who declined
to he identified by name, said that Howard,
who disappear -J from his New Mexico home
Sept 21, o; - ::