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…in the mid 1960s, who was caught in a sting operation by the FBI and sentenced to 18 years in a federal prison. Ronald Pelton, an NSA analyst, was recruited after he retired from the NSA. After he was betrayed by a KGB double agent in 1985, was sentenced to life imprisonment, F...

…cuments were genuine, we would of course 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 h...

Through the Looking Glass | 263 Pelton debriefings. The debriefing sessions, which went on for fifteen days, were from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. In them, Pelton managed to recall Project A, a joint NSA-CIA-navy operation in which subma- rines surreptitiously tapped into Soviet unde...

…ber 10 2. “According to Cherkashin, Ames...”- Author’s interview with Victor Cherkashin 3. Morell. op.cit. p. 297 4. “Pelton had left the NSA...”- George E. Curry, “Ex-intelligence Expert Guilty Of Espionage, Chicago Tribune, June 6, 1986.Also, see Pelton in Appendix A 5. “Sig...

…preparations for extracting a foreign intelligence worker, it presumably also expects to debrief him or her on arrival. Pelton, for example, who had access to far less valuable information than had Snowden, was held incommunicado in Vienna for two weeks during his debriefing. Wha...

and Pelton no longer had access to the NSA. In

Cherkashin decided Pelton had to be debriefed by communications

“Why did you go to such effort if Pelton had neither documents nor access

and Ronald Pelton of the NSA. I hoped that seeing

Pelton had almost certainly been photographed

…ussian foreign intelligence service, would have paid millions of dollars for such a document.” Unlike Ames, Hanssen and Pelton, Snowden was not after money. He sought documents that enhanced his power and importance. He made no secret of this part of his motive after he got safe...

…tate”: 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 [Sno...

…“Tf I were providing information”: Transcript of interview with Snowden in Moscow, Rusbridger and MacAskill, “I, Spy.” Pelton, for example: Victor Cherkashin, interview with author. “This debriefing could not”: Intelligence source who requested anonymity, interview with author....

…recruitment of three top American intelligence officers: Aldrich Ames of the CIA, Robert Hanssen of the FBI, and Ronald Pelton of the NSA. I hoped that see- ing these intelligence coups through the eyes, and mind-set, of their KGB handler might provide some historical context for...

… recruitment of three top American intelligence officers; Aldrich Ames in the CIA, Robert Hanssen in the FBI and Ronald Pelton in the NSA. I hoped that seeing these intelligence coups through the eyes, and mind-set, of their KGB handler might provide some historical context for t...