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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01554R003300300004-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 25, 2005
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: January 30, 1979
• Content Type: NOTES

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Tape 19
Side A, 0- 1/16
3 0 JAN 1979
Put on the Brzezinski agenda to raise the IOB report on
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THE WASHINGTON STAR (GREEN LINE)
Article appeared 16 November 1978
on page A-3 - -
For eu- .C!A..CI.e
Denies Sellin
Secret' to ' Soviets
HAMMOND, Ind. (AP) =Former
CIA clerk William Kampiles. says he
convinced ' a-- Soviet- afticiaF named
"Michael" that he could steal. classi-
fied. documents:: at7.wili: but; denied
that he-actually, sold him a:top-secret
satellitemanual;,.im.
Kampiles; --.23; teitified: i at -.his
federa-t_court:trial"yesterday: that. he
passed-no. information to. the official
he identified several., times.. only' as
..MichaeG: -`
The government has accusedKai
piles.of stealing;a.copy.of'a technical
manual_for.,the;KH,11'.sateliite 'stir-
veiIlance _- system ,_which h -monitors
foreign troop I
?by photographing. them from
outer space. The: government said he
sold-the manual to a Soviet embassy
official---.during -a- tripe,. to-.: Greeee-
-earlierthis-year.. c' .:.>'
Kampiles, wha had worked for the
CIA:: from. March to- Nbvember-1977,
said. he.was in :Athens- in - February
and'.` March- visiting =relatives.--and
that he had four. meetings with Mich
ael
'*- He'said. he convinced thetofficial
that he still worked for the-CIA. that
he had access to 'top-secret material
and that he would steal it for the:
Soviets:.
.The. .defense-. contends-.that- Ka in
piteshoped the CIA.would rehire him
ant I- 'double agent iLliec:fooled the
Russians& lot o:-thinking;.?he- wa%' n.
their side.-
?_3hrottShout = the?rltrial..-:cuestiops
have':been. raised.- about; the:..CtA.s
-internal.: securiV:-Deenses~attarnkYMichael Monico? re I.-Fetter yes ter--
day fron TheodoreAnderson; a_, ctlag.?
chief.of'the special.secarit Centex' f-
ttie .CIA::z The 'letter;- dated;'Nnv...l''
1978,. ai a3dresse~::to thy: erector nT
secfiritsays: lfr o, :349 Coco i~s e
.satellitemanual are-anaccountedfor,
tncludin 3 asst ned.tn a CtIA.:.
'FBI,.agents`have said thatK'agt
piles. confessed that he- gave Michael
the manual.:dnd.was`'paid 53"000.- t
~Kampiles' lawyer contends his client
G was coerced into confessing-,
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