LIST OF RECENT DEFECTOR AND/OR U.S. NATIONALS ACCUSED OF ESPIONAGE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-01022R000100020042-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 17, 2000
• Sequence Number: 42
• Content Type: LIST

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D CT OR AND/OR U.S. NA'T'IONALS ACCUSED OF ESPIONAGE
(briean defectors or spies who have worked in
A'Th'etgn power - whose names have become a matter of
piIM c kno-016 r!e A in the 1960' a.
~ct, ' Davis, USA, defected to East Germany 19 Aug 60.
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both NSA Code Clerks defected to Soviet
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ttriee' H. Halperin, former Boston University Professor,
defected` to a'Pov,ets '3.n 1960.
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C. SOarbeck, 2nd Secy of U.S. Embassy, Warsaw (Former
ccused.of spying 13 June 1961.
Varnelius Drummond, Yoeman 1st Class, USN, sentenced to
life imprison for spying in New York District Court 15 Aug 63.
Butenko, who served 11 months in Navy, was arrested in
Martial d , v$enccd to 20 years of hard labor and forfeiture of all
~. Kauffman, Capt, USAF, convicted of spying by Court
spying charges. He had TOP SECRET clearance with access
tolectron:, ontrol system developed for SAC.
heAdefe~tt." Sentenced to life imprisonment in iq 3.964,
John Gessmer served four years in the USAF. Joined the
Army 'in 1960 raid rite .fined. to Nuclear Weapons at Sandia, New Mexico, when
:w. V`( .(Iimir Sloboda, Sgt, USA, Intell.ige acre Clerk defected to
Russians frci i Wcot Germany in August 1960.
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dain, Sgt, USA 6th Inf, West Berlin.
Le Johnson, Sgt, USA, DOD Courier, arrested and charged
`7~mo ntkenbaugh was arrested in California in connection with
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ehsoii, Capt. USA, defected to East Germany on 3 Sep 63.
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n Thompson, served in USAF 1952 to 1958, but spied
57 to 1963 as charged in Federal Court in Brooklyn,