MISCELLANEOUS THOUGHTS ON SALT

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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 28, 2005
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• Publication Date: January 30, 1979
• Content Type: NOTES

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By George-l.ardner:'Jr.
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wasniasina~o,Dstatfwrriwe
H ALMOND; ,Ind.-A somber-faced
federal court..gtlgbegan.~delTeratitig.
the espionage'charges against. farmer
Central- Intelligence Ageatyc afficer
William Kampiles:IasLi after he
glumly acknowledgedaa the;.witness
stand that-he had confessed to;' the.-
time. and will. C onvene: again: later-this
moraine.
meats then -were:.-'wise' -and- said
he-had tried. to-reeant:-the-ver-next-
day, but hislawyers.fhiiad themselves
why` _ _ i?A 't;' r.;-, t K?
crecy that attended. the-two-weed[ triat,
U.S;. District:. Court Judge Phil .tiL.
McNagny- Jr..issued- a-* ealed'Tuling
Kampiles' lawyers from, asking the
young defendant-whether he had been
intimidated.. ?='~-' +! ~:=;i ?t . = `+' t ;-j
The judge, it was-`understood, held
that this line .'Of questioning: would:
opexi the door to an-even more dam-
aging counterattack. by government
made his confession. lasl;'Auguestiand;
according to reliable-souices.he failed
both times.
-taken the-witness.'staad-?in-his:-own-
-defense; was,. forced: to..admit;^again
Aug., 15 that.he? hard indeed stolen a=
top-secret manual on.-the, KH1I-spy sat-.
ellite from the CIA Operations Cen-'
Russians for $3,044 otra trip to_Athens;
last Februarys: '_.
of a relentless,..point-by-pointt:. recita?-
tion by government-.prosecutorJames,
Richmond.
Chief defense counsel -c3ae1} D.'
Monica, his voice-choking with'emo:-
an impassioned final argument,, in?:
Bard the -confession as "untrue, un-
reliable and incredi:."
Be-protested -that. the - aoveraazeafx
was in such "a rush to prosecute
out whether anyone at the CIA 0per-.
THE WASHINGTON POST
17 November 1978
"Just because you get a kid to ad-
-witting to something he didn't do, that-.
doesn't make a case?' :ldonico protested.,-,
Nodding at Kampiles,. the lawyer added,..
almost shouting:.' `
? :wants. to.scream ' out his.: iiina i
cence,-. Don't:. convict -him-. on -' state i
ments.that eaoie!out of his own mouth
that, day .Aug^15j..He"told-them it.
wasn't true Our the lGth They paid no ,
attention. He told them it wasn't true.j
on. the'.17th They,:paid; no: attention'. i
"Please,''. Monica. nrged,r.the Jurors?
'day- attention! End" the -nightmare."
.US "''attorney-' Davin` Reailp~ re="
Minded the courtroom;--however,.that.-
Kampiles had. actually told- "three stories
about:. What went on- in; Greece', last
winter ; .._; ?:.it~??:
The'son of. Greek immigrants, Kam-=
-=piles tried the first version oaa:Wash-`
ington friend of his, Anastasia Thama-
hi
-
os;on
srreturn
from- thtri lt
.:e-p-as aiaica"~ampiles~totd her that he had
met a foreigner on the flight to Athens
in February and that he told the man
-he- was looking for- a job. According
,
to this- version, 'the, foreigner suggest-'
ed'.he ga to.? the Russian -embassy,
which he did meeting aRussian
sgent
_
named "Michael who paid.him $3,040
for promising. to serve as- & :Spy,
the story;. but; at-:Katapiles'= requet,~-
she passed it- on to .'mutual friend at
believe it_ either.'-
4,
e could ' have called: George
self;" Ready pointed: out: t'Wby didn't
he? Because hewatited?id kmow-wheth=?
er: flint.story,?would-work, and, he
found.. out George:; tdz't,buy that
'story.- He thought it was a fantasy So.
when he met. George Jn.-April,-,hi-had,
a: new- story:" -- ?~
"According to this-version Ready re-.
1minded the jurorsi'in sarcastic- tones,
Kampiles happened. to be:.wandering.
past the' Soviet --embassye in.-..Athens,
around- `midnight: in the middle of
February, when he noticed an out-
door .garden. party- irrprogress there.
By this account'-Kampiles- wandered
in,, met "Michael" and "conned" the-
--Russian .intelligence:officer?'out of
$3,000 over- a series -of meetings by'
convincing "Michael" that he worked
for the. CIA 'and promising to come
back with'imP4rtant information'on a
juture.,trip to Greece.
Ready_scoffed'atthe story. The Rus-
sians, he declared, "don't pay for 'a
pig an.the-poke'.":FBL agents didn't
believe -Kampiles when - he repeated
the account to them on Aug. 14, Ready
.said, and they.. arranged another inter-
rogation the next day with FBI agent-,
James K. Murphy who confronted him: -l.
-tvith.`-`inconsistanciea' ia.the account -
It was thew and only then, the prose-
cutor-submitted, .that.Karapiles "told
-the truth"
FBI witnesses. at the- trial testued-
repeatedly- that the Russiatu "never" -
pay hard cash simply on. promises, but-
Moaico contended. otherwise He in--
-troduced into the record a CIA study.-
'
of Soviet
operational techniques-and
gambits which indicated that the Rus-.
siansi-will-pay :money simply to re-
crust someone _-y', ;,,.
"Soviets intelligence+.believes t,bat
Americans will ; do' 'almost anything .
for money-,'and- the-factor of material
incentive _is- somewhere. -present in
every type: of recruitment operation,"
the CIA study said. Quoting from a ?
.Soviet. intelligence 'document,. the
study continued that the Russians ad- -
vise their officers that ?"the success.
ful_ use of financial motivation in re-
cruitmentrequires an understanding
of the' psychological makeup of the
_-average American-He seriously thinks
of money as-the only thing which can
ensure his personal freedom and. in.
dependence:. _ _ ~.
-The defense; however, suffered an- -
other- setback:when It' called a Iast-
minute witness;: another-young CIA.-
who also. worked in. the Operations-
. Center . when= Kampiles did and fnr_
'viewed::'by defense.t representatives :
over, the, telephone- earlier .this week,
she had- "apparently given-them the
-impressibtr -that: she :,had= seen the -
-nussing, I1- manual,.th.e?one Ram. -
piles ,was , a c c u s e d..of .stealing, , in.-
December-1977-after he had left -
On the witness stand, however, she
-said- she- thought, she, might have ac-
tually seen a KH ii "Handbook,'.' a
popularized version of the "Manual,".
.which the Operations Center still had
-? While-Monico--sat back. in frnstra
Lion, government prosecutors used-
Cooper's unexpected appearance to
ask her what-K-;- --reputation Kam.
piles had for `truth and veracity"
among his-CLA coworkers.
"IYs not--very good," she testified.
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0 JAN 1970,
Estimates by outsiders - Moos
Strategic estimate
Sov viewpoint
Are they up w/uS
strategic team
Euphoria for China
Assume US mil burden
Assume Anti-Sov burden
Wouk - Historical complaints lack US resolve
NFAC $ - scholarships -
endentured servitude
List of areas of concern
What do diff for long term
forecasting due Iran?
Press issues:
1) Impact perceptions mil strength
Strategic - COS's
Conv - NIE 11-10
Press quasi-dynamic comparisons
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