cure debriefing room, he said that he had information that Russia would find interesting, but he wanted money in 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 no longer had access to @ the NSA. In addi

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

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

evada to work as prosti- tute. 18 U.S.C.A. § 2422. Claude Hanks, Clayton, Mo., Hanks Tay- lor & Suddarth, Clayton, Mo., filed brief, for appellant, Pelton. Irl B. Saris, St. Louis, Ma, for appellant Rich. David M. Rosen, Ant. U. S. Atty., ar- gued, Robert D. Kingaland, U. S. Atty., St. Louis, Mo., o

prostitution in Win- nemucca, Nevada. According to Bray, she was present at Rich's apartment when Rich and Pelton made arrangements for this trip. Pelton called an acquaintance of his at Penny's Cozy Corner and arranged for were alleged to have occurred on September 29 and 30, 1976, in connection wi

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

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

"Consent is a defense to kidnapping but not to a Mann Act charge."); United States v. Jones, 808 F.2d 561, 565-66 (7th Cir. 1986); United States v. Pelton, 578 F.2d 701, 712 (8th Cir. 1978); Gebardi v. United States, 287 U.S. 112, 117-18 (1932). 25 EFTA00074528 Count Four: Transportation of a Minor

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