FIANCEE SAYS LEE WAS CIA DUPE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000403980002-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 18, 2010
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: November 13, 1981
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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SAN DIEGO UNION
13 November 1981
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By iL~RJORIE MILLER
Stcff WriiN, The Son Diego Union
A San Diego woman who plans to
marry convicted spy Andrew Daul-
ton Lee says she has evidence a third .
person was involved in the espionage:.
case phich landed Lee and co-conspi-_
rator Christopher Boyce in prison for
selling US. satellite-secrets to the
Soviet Union.
Kathleen hicKeany, a 28-year-old `
free-lance writer, said her evidence -
of a third person and other new infor- -
matron will be used to r+egteest a ret--~
rial for her fiance, whais in the Fed-
eral Correctional Institute at Lom-
F~?
She said she hopes the request will
be made before next January, when
the couple hopes to marry if granted
permission by prison authorities.
Lee and Boyce were convicted in
19'x7 of selling to the Soviet Union top
secret information that Boyce stole
and copied while he was a security .
clerk at TRW in Redondo Beacl>. ; ,:., ,;
During the trial, Lee's attorney ar-
gued Lee believed he was working as
a subcontractor for the CL't, selling
?. incorrect information:. -
Lee was arrested in front of the ~_
Soviet Embassy in Mexico City with -
a copy of a propo satellitesystem.
l~icKenny, who was writing a book on
Lee when she met hint three months ago,
said she believes he was convicted as a
result of a CIA conspiracy and that the new
evidence will force a retrial which will
-prove his innocence. -
. - "We have learned there was, in fact, a
third party involved in the espionage," she
told a press conference at her downtown.
apartment last night. "He (the third person)
`ions hired by or in cooperation with Chris-
-. topper Boyce," she said.
?. She said she has talked to the third per- ~'
son, who she says is working in San Diego,
and that "he has expressed a willingness to
come forth and talk." _ _.
bicKenny~said she has also found a CL~1
? agent. who will be leaving the agency. in
January and "will say there is a canceled
.check in the safe at CIA headquarters in
Los Angeles made out to Christopher
-.Boyce:." ,
;. ZtiicKenny said she believes that, plus evi-
Bence of jury misconduct in the 1977 trial,
will force a new trial -
bicKenny~said she is meeting with Ken-
neth Kahn; Lee's attorney, in Los .Angeles
today."to discuss strategy" but that she
hopes to have papers filed before Jan_ 2,
which is Lee's 30th birthday and the day
the couple hopes to marry., , , -, , -
Kahn was unavailable for comment.~~ `'~ ~'
"I would- like to know that six months'
down the road I will have a husband I can
_ go tabed Witte at night," McKennq said. But
she saidshe wants to marry Lee regardless
if heir granted a retrial .; : -' ; ::. .~ -;,;:
{ Lee, who was on the telephone to
l~icKenny at the beginning of the press con-
ference, said he is marrying because "I am
in love." He denied he is marrying for pub-
licity for his case. "I don't think that is the
issue at hand," he said. .. ?
Howard Scott,. Lee's -case worker at
Lompoc prison, said he received a request
fer the marriage Wednesday and that it
was being submitted to the warden. He said
he wouldn't have an answer for the couple
before:bionday. - _ ~ - _ -
itilcKenny, whose kitchen wall is covered
with messages and mailgrams regazding
the case, said she talks to Lee one to three
times a .day. She said she has been
researching the case heavily for the last six
months and that it "borders otr being a
total obsession" with her.. _ _ -
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Rob McGlaston,-who introduced himself
as bicKenny's press agent-research assist-.
ant-bodyguard, said McKenny has received
two telephone threats in the- last two
.,weeks... - -??:;-_ _.... ._w:.~..i..~__ ...
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