U.S. AIDES SAY BRITISH SPY GAVE SOVIET KEY DATA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP96B01172R000300030004-2
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 14, 2007
• Sequence Number: 4
• Content Type: NSPR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 23.- British in
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chargth _last, summer with espionage;
ietrations of Western intelligence
since --World,-. War II, ..according to
'h- the` accused man Geoffrey Arthur
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British agents 'yesterday, grilled
British intelligence the'names of KGB ,Wand potentially'most+damaging.Soyiet
KGB's inner workings ' `i _ = While~=Kuzichkin',s defection -repre- '' He_" provided Moscow iwith highly
Al, 8916 intelligence agents were question genre, there`werenew worries over the '-attempts ? to ? intercept Soviet corn-
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Geoffrey Arttiij f Prune=-in position totem;, Sussex. The defection of Kuzichkin, 35;:e.; ish linguist t cltargad~-with-k espionage mode; the report ? said :?H&'spied from
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sexual assault on young girls over a period of two rank that gave him access to much of the sensitive
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un a list of, nntential virtima while f..,.., information on NATO codes and military deploy-
again in the same court. This time his alleged of- un i, rnuie gave pressure or worx as ms rea-
fense was n a vastly different ki?a. e...a,,.. t.. son for leaving intelligence work. He joined a local
accordance with stringent British laws on report- '` nuns can company, wnicn, among other contracts,
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Prime had been charged under Sartinn 1 of A. ;' _:. AN. p y
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