SPIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000303570031-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 12, 2011
• Sequence Number: 31
• Publication Date: October 21, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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RADIO TV REPORTS, IN
4701 WILLARD AVENUE, CHEVY CHASE, MARYLAND 20815 (301) 656-40~
PROGRAM American Almanac
STATION WRC-TV
NBC Network
DATE October 21, 1985 8:00 P.M. CITY
Washington, D.C.
SUBJECT S p i e s
ROGER MUDD: When we come to look back at 1985, it may
very well be that we will remember it as the Year of the Spy.
Spies have always been among us. They are fascinating and
repellent figures: heroes when they're ours, villains when
they're not. We have the CIA, the Soviets have the KGB.
But the spies have been more than just among us lately.
We've heard too many revelations in the last few months of
Americans doing the KGB's bidding not to realize that some sort
of war is going on. Secrets are being bought and sold; and so,
it seems, are Americans.
The latest is 33-year-old Edward Lee Howard, a former
CIA agent who had been in training for a-Moscow assignment. In
1983, however, he reportedly failed a lie-detector test on the
use of drugs, and the CIA fired him.
Sometime last summer, the FBI put Howard under
surveillance. A month ago, Edward Lee Howard vanished from his
home outside Santa Fe, New Mexico, much to the embarrassment of
the CIA, the FBI, and its Director, Judge William Webster.
Where is Edward Howard, Judge?
WILLIAM WEBSTER: I can't answer that question. And if
I could, I don't think I'd be in position to tell you right now.
He is a fugitive. We have substantial information about where
he's gone. But I think that's all I can tell to you.
MUDD: How did he get away?
WEBSTER: Well, he got away because his departure was
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