BUYING AND SELLING OF TOP SECRET DOCUMENTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01070R000301960012-8
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 14, 2010
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: December 3, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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PROGRAM The Ten O' Clock News
STAnON WTTG TV
DATE December 3, 1985 10:00 PM CITY Washington, DC
SUBJECT Buying and Selling of Top Secret Documents
MORRIS JONES: Another type of world trade is in the
forefront of the news this evening, the buying and selling of top
secret documents possibly vital to our national defense.
The wife of accused spy Johnathan Pollard has been
ordered to stay behind bars pending a grand jury hearing some
time this month.
But Channel 5's eric Rabe reports, even with several
accused spies in jail, the U.S. still might be losing informa-
tion.
ERIC RABE: Despite the arrests of a string of spies
recently, the United States is still hemorrhaging sensitive
information, according to two former spies and a key senator. As
high a priority for the Soviets as military secrets is informa-
tion on high technology. That makes California's Silicone Valley
a key target.
Convicted spy James Harper worked there and says he has
little doubt hi-tech information like he provided is still
flowing to the Soviets.
HARPER: Technical information, manufacturing informa-
tion, hardware.
RAGE: A Senate subcommittee listened as Harper descri-
bed the ease with which he routinely traveled to Poland with
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suitcases full of technical papers. He returned with as much as
$100,000 a trip.
The Soviet Union has long been known to use satellite
countries like Poland to gather intelligence. But the United
States government is rarely as concerned about the activities of
satellite officials as they are about the Russians. Former Czech
spy Gladyslaw Sigman (?) says that's a mistake.
GLADYSLAW SIGMAN: There is absolutely no defense, no,
between an operative of the Hungarian or the Czechoslovakian
intelligence and the Soviet intelligence. Now as far as the
result of these operations, there are no differences.
RABE: Nevertheless, diplomats of satellite countries
are allowed freer travel in the United States than the Soviets
get, and they have trade offices in dozens of areas where the
Soviets are not allowed to go. Even worse may be the Soviets'
routine monitoring of American telecommunications. They get
valuable technical and military information, and from their new
hilltop embassy in Washington, they may also pick up tidbits to
blackmail potential spies into cooperating.
Former intelligence chairman Daniel Patrick Moynihan
says it's been going on for ten years without protest from the
U.S.
SEN. DANIEL PATRICK MOYNIHAN: And I don't see how you
can assume that there is no connection between the number of
spies that appeared in this country the last couple weeks and the
fact that the Soviets have been listening to telephone conversa-
tions for ten years. And we haven't ever even so much as said to
them, please don't.
RAGE: Of course, the United States listens in on the
Soviets too, and some say more would be lost than gained by
making a fuss. Still, few argue with one senator who said today,
the spy business is a growth industry in the United States.
Eric Rabe, Metromedia News, Capitol Hill.
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