Epstein Secrets

,000 documents. As was discussed in Chapter I, just revealing the partial content of a single document to a journalist, as in the case of CIA officer Jeffrey Sterling, could result in two years in prison. So in the eyes of the law disclosing the full contents of 58,000 highly-classified documents constituted an unp

nt to a journalist, as in the case of CIA officer Jeffrey Sterling, could result in two years in prison. So

recruited after he retired from the NSA. After he was betrayed by a KGB double agent in 1985, was sentenced to life imprisonment, Finally, there was David Sheldon Boone, a NSA code clerk, who between 1988 and 1992, provided the KGB with NSA documents in return for $60,000. Boone, sentenced to 24 years in prison, was

rd Snowden,” Guardian, July 17, 2014. http://www.activistpost.com/2014/07/new-guardian-interview-with-edward.html “Dominique Strauss-Kahn....”—Edward Jay Epstein, “What Really Happed To Strauss- Kahn” New York Review of Books, December 22, 2011 “Consumer Financial Protection Bureau...”—Newt Gingrich, “A Gover

ward.html “Dominique Strauss-Kahn....”—Edward Jay Epstein, “What Really Happed To Strauss- Kahn” New York R

found dead of...” Edward Jay Epstein, “The Spy Wars,” New York Times, September 28, 1980 . “Robert Lipka, a clerk...”—See Robert Lipka Appendix A “ David Sheldon Boone...”—See David Boone, Appendix A “Harold Nicholson, the CIA’s deputy...”— Elizabeth Farnsworth, “Update on the Case of CIA Agent Harold Nicholson,” P

nald Sachtleben in 2013, Stephen Kim in 2014, and Jeffrey Sterling in 2014. Like Snowden, they claimed to b

iferation. The Snowden breach was not without precedent at the NSA. There had been two Russian spies at the NSA during the Cold War, Jack Dunlap and David Sheldon Boone, who took a limited number of documents, but no one since the end of the Cold War is known to have taken a single NSA classified document. Now an ins