'IRREPARABLE HARM' SEEN IN SALE OF CIA DATA TO RUSS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP99-00498R000100150117-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 20, 2007
• Sequence Number: 117
• Publication Date: August 19, 1978
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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WASHINGTON' U.S: is `
beery dealt."irreoarable harm"- by de-~.
tailed :"descriptions .of- an.. electronic.
surveillance .- system :that:,a...former.:
CIA -employe is? accused of:-selling, to`,
the Russians, intelligence sources said
Friday::::- ,':__ "; :. r> `~ ? .
Sections. oi` a.manual.outlining:the
highly secret-system were delivered.
to.a.Soviet agent irk-Athens: by WiI.. i
liar". Kahpiles. 23, Of Chicago; ae
cording to:a complaint.fled..by.thei?.
FBL in- a federal court- in -Chicago:
ampiies.Was arrested -Thursday:-. ,
A U.S magistrate in Chicago Frr
thy s set an:: unusually high- bond of $1"
million for, Kampiles, who. was being
held- in:.a;-federal detention..'center~
there: -~- ;
In . Washington;;.-a-. high-ranking=
government source said that "this.
man has done irreparable harm to?our
Country."_-, .;i . =-:
It's ah~ extremely'-sensitive-`mat'= l
,ter," the source added. "One: of ;the:-;
`pralite s`'-that #o - :...=.... ::.
rris -i ~TOSecute ewe:.
might have to release. classified?infor:'
'matron; and vejustca- n'tdothat' =
n~.It :wa?=leariiecf"that'CIA director
Stansfield`Turner` had_ called::Atty
Gen: riffin B; Bell on what the3ntel-.
~ ligence -agency =-aerms'-e.-secure
..'phone". to brief -him'oiithe case be
.ore Kampiles was.arrested.r,,; - ,
r7n
in - addition .Turner visited"".the
White House. to discuss the case with.
Zbigniew' Brzezinski, President. Car-I
ter's assistant :"for national security
.affairs......
The FBI said that Kampiles 'had
been employed as.a watch officer for
the CIA from March to November, ;
1977. During that-period, he allegedly!
removed a--top-secret--document en-
titled -"KH-11, ; System - Technical
Manual" from CIA- headquarters .in
Langley, Va., and kept it when. he
.moved to Chi=g&:;". .. } st:
Late last February or early March, Karnpiles sold sec
'tions o"f- the'sensitive document to a- Soviet agent code
named Michael'in Athensfor$3,100, the FBI said. ' :.- .
Apparently to prevent: leaks of classified information,:
U.S. Magistrate Olga. Jurco of Chicago placed under court:
seal an eight-Rage affidavit by-FBI special agent Rickey P
Knapp that accompanied the official complaint
But U.S. Atty. Thomas P.' Sullivan said. in. a statement
:that the CIA manual allegedly stolen by Kampiles-dealt.'
.with "a sensitive technical collection system.' ` :. ?
--:',:"The operation of this system as described indetail in'the,
te
chnical a uaLdirectly_relates to our national defense,":
Sullivan said.
It? could not be-leariiedwhether the electronic-"system49
was used in ttt a United States-abroad,'
or whether it in-'
volved the operation-of
;::;:The FBIsaidKampiless hadsate'llites
given.the.Russians the cover,
-page. the tabloof contents-and:Section 1 of the CtAmanual: The S1 million bond- set for.. Kampiles- is rare;-,
although
two. Soviet employee. of the: United Nations. accused -of-
espionage against the United States were-held in New Jer-
sey last June on $Zmillforibail each _ _
.;!.The Russians. were temporarily freed on June 26 as part'
,or.a U.S.-So viet.'dea1.?in which':American- businessman;
:Francis.J.Cra ,ford. accused of currency violations by the
:Russians, was heed in Moscow to await-trial
In. recent years the-highest money bail-imposed in other;
espionage case has been 5100,000 .
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