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” he said with a twinkle in his eye. “The Internet
he told me that many “walk- ins” who contacted Soviet
the KGB’s job was to leave no stone unturned when
which connected to the Soviet Pacific Fleet’s mainland
a joint NSA- CIA- navy operation in which submarines
where he was domiciled at the residence of the
Pelton had almost certainly been photographed
because the FBI had twenty- four- hour surveillance
the civilian employee of the NSA who had retired in 1979.
” he said. “We didn’t control him; he controlled
the anonymous spy delivered twenty- seven com-
the KGB (and later the SVR) paid him $600
even if he could spend only a small portion
I asked whether he fit into the category of a disgruntled
Cherkashin said he was looking for a well- placed
wearing an elegant gray suit and dark tie. He walked
and Ronald Pelton of the NSA. I hoped that seeing
had served in the KGB’s espionage branch
even rented a room in the V- Express Capsule Hotel