POSSIBLE CIA SPY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01070R000301900006-1
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 11, 2010
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: October 4, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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RADIO TV REPORTS, INC.
4701 WILLARD AVENUE, CHEVY CHASE, MARYLAND 20815 [phone]
PROGRAM CBS Evening News STATION WDVM TV
CBS Network
DATE October 4, 1985 7:00 PM CITY Washington DC
Possible CIA Spy
BOB SCHIEFFER: More revelations tonight about Edward
Howard, the fugitive former CIA man allegedly turned Soviet spy.
It turns out his activities are causing a stir in the Soviet, as
well as the American, intelligence community.
Phil Jones reports.
PHIL JONES: CBS News has been told that information
provided to the Soviets by former CIA employee Edward Howard has
resulted in the presumed execution of a high-ranking Russian
official who was providing intelligence to the U.S. and that
several other Soviet informants have not been heard from. Their
safety is unknown.
Also today, in New Mexico federal court, the Justice
Department charged in criminal complaint that Howard had admitted
selling information to the Soviet KGB during a meeting in Austria
in September, 1984. Included in the court documents was a letter
Howard left behind at his home for his wife, Mary, which said
"sell the house, jeep, etcetera, and move with one of our parents
and be happy." Referring to his two year old son, Howard wrote
"I'll think of him and you each day until I die."
Sources say Howard was being trained by the CIA for an
assignment in the U.S. Embassy in Moscow when he was caught in a
lie detector test, failing to disclose previous personal and
financial matters. He was fired.
It was also disclosed today that Howard allegedly told
two current CIA employees in 1984 that he had spent hours in
the vicinity of the Soviet Embassy in Washington trying to decide
whether to enter and disclose information. He claimed he didn't.
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Howard is the only known possible Soviet mole. But a
second former CIA officer is also reported under suspicion.
CIA spokesmen reaffirm emphatically there is no reason
to suspect any present CIA employee.
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