THE PRIME CASE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP96B01172R000300020003-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 28, 2005
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: February 2, 1983
• Content Type: MF

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-,.Chernav ii3Onneward-bound at Heathrow yesterday with his wife
N'alehtin'a and their seven-year-old son Anton,
?
Prime had
list
.BONUS F01
FALKLAND
SETTLERS
GEOFFREY Pftlit, the By TONY ALLEN-MILLS
jailed spy, acted as a' A,_ GROUP of siFt teacher:-
" talent spotter " for his A and on public work -
Soviet
administrator are due to
masters and ? drew
itp....a detailed list of staff leave Britain for the Falk- '
at the Governmen1 land Islands next ?tnonth.
41?11110,....-.--am-r,,-,..-5,-.....-..-.--...? -....,.., as part of a Government.
Communications H 9.....12 scheme offering tax-free
C it e I t e n It a m who he bonuses worth up - to
ihoueht could be
black- I.:6,000 a year to ? pi-ores-
mailed. sionals prepared to accept
During his .14 years as a -Rus- short-term contracts over-
seassian linguist, the last two at . .
'
GCHQ Prime, 42, .who was The teachers will he among
jailed for 35 years in Noverro the first civilians to. settle in
her, built .up details on file of the Falklands since the Aro,en-
the people he worked with.
As a result of the discovery
of a considerable number of files
containing hundreds of per-
sonal facts about his Colleagues,
those .naMed have- been inter-
viewed by officers of NI15 and
GCHQ's security division.
F.L12.211:atiLEDELii 1w Prime
have si221nn_t_ter?F?Tfliscl.p-
a==rl?i'S?Se6rne ea -
at1?: oie_caus'ir-thrt-
ecniFfifle TTira?ITZ?aTirTiFiT5
The people were questioned
in an attempt to discover if
they had been put under any
pressure by the Russians.
Facts withheld
The live who lost security
clearance, and as a result were
demoted, tried to cover up cer-
tain facts which they did not
know their interrogators were
aware of as a resul of Prime's
information.
Although 'none was found to
be limier pressure from the
Russians, they have been de-
moted because they failed to
disclose certain personal details.
The inquiries, descrihed . by
one of the five as" hostile,'- the aftermath of the
involved detailed examination victory against Argentina, thr.
of their own private bank flood of applications to emigrate
accounts and extended to what to the Islands suggests that the
they did in their private lives. Government may well find it no
Replaced by 'mule' longer needs to offer people in-
ducements to woidi there.
- The reason for the intensive But f'
interview is that MIS believe alklands officials point
s
that %% hen Prime Ca1110 tO legvae(i n"1"o'nth?s'h` ` '
before the Islands s'lanisseveral (ao
the base in 1977. he
process applications and accom-
already been mutated by at
least one other o mole o who modate new arrivals.
had an equal if not greater In the meantime the Over-
access to classified information. seas Development Administra?
Other? i?? Prim? wont(' have fbeen cuicuticageil to -.- firirli insrcrielisniLilninagicwi:1?11ittisir ithh
jams and a -Sree-ci
posts dealing with the after-
division. But instead the Rns-
tevin
and even oltered li:iu suans a-i-ret if ti) 1 ,rni cittil ii the l' (;41 crielNe'ticIL:IntoceLnatIci'hi'acrhi:sa v el e abvei 0Bit:1-let raei rid
en
pension for life. two-year- contracts with a third-
Prime who also built no a Year option- They will fly to
detailed nle ?f ?).WM) Ascension Island and then con-
three ?f ?1,11,1, he , tinue to Port Stanley by ship.
assaulted in attacks which
uJfv id to his arrest and the.
discovery id' his spying actiy- jE'au PUSHES
au,. is due to appeal against
his sentence later in the year. FOR 'MORE
be cl.iiming Holt 11i .1
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roved For Release
of the fact that hi. ?4:1e po!itt. Iv Vvi
harsh a Neutron,: in view.
:mil it tidt o
tine invasion.
They have been recruited be
the Overseas- Dove.loptitent Ad-
ministration, a branch of the
Foreign Office Which also SVTI(k
British professionals to under-
developed Third World coun-
tries. ,
A spokesman for the Adminis-
tration said yesterday the bonus
scheme, which had, been in
operation for "many years."
wasintended to "tap up"
salaries paid by the Falkland
Islands Government and oder
British teachers an inducement
to move to the South Atlantic.
Staff salaries
Teachers' s.darie?, on the
Islands range from C3,500 to
just over ?4,400. The tax-free
" too-up" can be worth between
?4,300 and E6,000 a year.
The bonuses are only payable.
to staff appointed by the Falk-
land !stands Government and
recruited by the Overseas De-
velopment Administration.
The incentive scheme was de-
vised in the pre-invasion days
when most Britons needed a
large atlas to pinpoint th!>:
whereabouts of the Falklands.
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GEOFFR EY PRIME
We are asked to state that
Geoffrey Prime, 42, sentenced
at the Old Bailey in November
to 33 'ears' imprisonment for
spying for Russia, denies that
anv t me he kept a blackmail
I. It ;s also denied that he
passed on to the Russians per-
,;onal (arts .about colleagues at
I GC U which could have been
j used for blackmail.
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