BEST KEPT SECRETS, PART 4

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01070R000301750005-9
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 6, 2010
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: May 23, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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DATE May 23, 1985 5:30 P.M. CITY Baltimore, Md.
SUBJECT Best Kept Secrets, Part 4
ROD DANIELS: In the real-life spy game, the stakes are
of course high: charges of treason, and a life sentence if
you're convicted. There's also the [unintelligible] awards.
They're very high. They are wealth and power.
The players, those who recruit the spies, live by one
major rule: high-powered pressure. They make the pressure so
great that people are willing to sell their country's secrets to
the enemy.
Rich Hollander looks at how the game is played in part
four of his cover story, "Best Kept Secrets."
RICH HOLLANDER: Game. It implies recreation, fun.
Sometimes the word is used to describe the psychic tug-of-war
between the FBI and the Soviet KGB. It is a war, a war where
each side tries to get the players on the other side to commit
treason.
Is that the one?
MAN: I hope so.
[Confusion of voices]
MAN: I think the less said the better. But that's the
principal operation. That's obviously a principal priority
target of this office, is to develop and recruit intelligence
agents.
HOLLANDER: A game. Dave Major, one of the nation's top
counterintelligence officers, speaks of his adversaries like a
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DAVE MAJOR: A good intelligence officer is looking for
that chip in the man's armor, where the fabric of his life is
falling apart, something has gone; and he tries to exploit that
situation. If he's a professional intelligence officer, his
business or his job is to beat you mentally.
FILM NARRATOR: FBI. Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity. And
there's the war map [unintelligible] flagged with the names of
special agents and placed where the agents are.
HOLLANDER: Why would someone betray the country of his
birth; give up family, friends, career? One thing is for sure.
Few defect because they believe in communism.
MAJOR: I think human beings are more complicated than
to sit there and say, "I'm going to do it for the betterment of
mankind." There's always got to be a rationalization for
conducting treason. And that's what you're doing. You're
rationalizing treason.
HOLLANDER: Money, revenge, lust, ego. Those are the
reasons. That is what Mr. Smith says. He should know. He was a
double agent, an employee of the KGB, all the while working for
the Americans. Smith, a 37-year-old Army sergeant with top
secret clearance, understands the price of treason.
MR. SMITH: In my case, I didn't think I had a price.
You know, if you look at the world realistically, even if you are
that infatuated with money and if you get involved in this kind
of thing, sooner or later you're going to get caught.
HOLLANDER: Why did Smith work on the edge for nearly
ten years?
SMITH: Overall, it's a damned good feeling to be the
only one that can do this particular thing, to be confident that
you can do it, and to know that everything's riding on you.
That's a super feeling.
HOLLANDER: What happens if a spy operation goes bad?
According to Dave Major of the FBI, the Soviets promise their
American agents they can live in Moscow if an operation fails.
By contrast, we promise our Soviet spies they can live out their
lives in San Diego. As Major says, take your pick.
DANIELS: Rich, this spy game is very intriguing. How
do the people, the intelligence people in the United States keep
track on the Soviet spies who are on our soil?
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HOLLANDER: Well, it is hard. In this game of spying,
there are very few rules. And yet ours is an open society. And
many say that places the FBI at a disadvantage.
We hear more about that tomorrow in part five.
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