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,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

urse grab them.” The final recruitment I asked Cherkashin about was that of Ronald Pelton, the civilian employee of the NSA who had retired in 1979. Pelton had left the NSA without taking any classified documents with him. After retiring, he had financial difficulties, and he sought to get money from the

return. What interested me about the Pelton case was that Cherkashin proceeded to recruit Pelton even though he was no longer working at the NSA, and Pelton no longer had access to the NSA. In addition, since the FBI had 24 hour surveillance on the embassy, Pelton had almost certainly been photographed en

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

ously tapped into Soviet undersea cables in the Sea of Okhotsk, which connected a to the Soviet Pacific Fleet's mainland headquarters at Vladivostok. Pelton received another $30,000 from the KGB. “Did the information in his head proved valuable?” I asked. “As long as the NSA didn’t know the tap was comp

he residence of the Soviet ambassador to Austria. A KGB’s electronic communications expert, Anatoly Slavnov, was then sent to Vienna to supervise the Pelton debriefings. The debriefing sessions, which went on for 15 days, were from 8 AM to 6 PM. In them, Pelton managed to recall Project A, a joint NSA-CIA

4. A CNN.com - Sandy Berger to plead guilty on documents charge - Apr I, 2005 (http://edition.am.com/2005/LAW/04/01/berger.plea0 15. na b Smith, is Jeffrey, Berger Case Still Roils Archives, Justice Dept., Washington Post, February 21, 2007 (http://www.washingtonpost.cotn/svp-dyn/content/article/2007/02

atisfy this final element. 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b). *3 The government cites United States Brockdwff, 992 F.Supp. 22 (D.C.1997) and United States I Pelton, 578 F.2d 701 (8th Cir.1978) for analogous support of its argument that it does not have to prove that Defendant intended to have sex with a sixte

have sex with a sixteen-year-old in North Dakota. Both of these cases involve statutes that make the intended behavior itself a federal crime. See Pelton, 578 F.2d at 712 (stating that 18 U.S.C. § 2421 prohibits transporting women for prostitution, so this prohibition is not "keyed to the legalit

onal/longterm /ciaspy/affidavt.htm. 223 When it comes to recruiting moles: Angleton, interviews with author. 224 well experienced with false flags: Epstein, Deception, 22-28. 224 the “Trust” deception: Ibid. Also, Raymond Rocca (the CIA’s former research chief for the counterintelligence staff), intervi

4 “There's definitely a deep state”: Vanden Heuvel and Cohen, “Snowden Speaks.” 255 according to Cherkashin: Cherkashin, interview with author. 258 Pelton had left the NSA: George E. Curry, “Ex-intelligence Expert Guilty of Espionage,” Chicago Tribune, June 6, 1986. CHAPTER 26 The Handler 261 “As for