FBI SPY ARREST

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000404690008-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 22, 2010
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: October 3, 1984
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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ABC WORLD NEWS TONIGHT
3 October 1984
FBI SPY ARREST JE11NINGS: Good evening. The FBI has arrested one of its
own. Richard Miller of Los Angeles has been charged with
spying for the Soviet Union. He is the first member of
the FBI to be charged with working for a foreign power
while on active duty. Tom Schell reports from Los Angeles
on how the agency caught up with one of its own employees.
SCHELL: Miller appeared in U.S. District Court in San
Diego today to answer charges that he conspired with two
Soviet citizens to deliver defense and intelligence
secrets to the Soviet Union. Miller was fired by the FBI
yesterday after 20 years as a special agent. For the past
three years he's been assigned to the counterintelligence
unit in Los Angeles. He was ordered held without bail
until tomorrow to give him time to hire an attorney. An
FBI affidavit alleges that Miller conspired with Nikolay
and Svetlana Ogorodnikov, two Soviet immigrants.
RICHARD\BRETZING (FBI special agent): We believe they are
both covert agents of the KGB.
SCHELL: The FBI statement also says that Miller demanded
$65,000 in cash, and gold for his information. Justice
Department sources told ABC News that Svetlana and Miller
had a sexual relationship. Their first encounter was last
May. This morning, FBI agents searched the Hollywood
apartment of the Ogorodnikovs, looking for further
evidence of the alleged' conspiracy. Miller lived at this
house near San Diego with his wife and eight children on
weekends. But during the week he maintained this home in
the Los Angeles area. With Miller's permission, FBI
agents searched his L.A. home last Friday, and according
to their affidavit they found, 'FBI classified documents
concerning foreign counterintelligence investigation and
activities.' The affidavit alleges there were several
meetings over the past four months. It says that in late
August, Miller and Svetlana Ogorodnikova went to San
Francisco to establish his FBI credentials with the KGB
agents at the Soviet Consulate, that Miller had already
given her a secret document detailing the workings of the
FBI counterspy. Also in August, Miller allegedly met
Svetlana's husband for the first time at their apartment,
but Nikolay used the name of Nikolay Wolfson. Wolfson was
identified by Svetlana as the man who would pay Miller for
FBI documents. Other meeting sites were named, this
restaurant in Santa Monica, this park in Westwood, among
others. The Ogorodnikovs were arraigned in U.S. District
Court in Los Angeles this afternoon and both were denied
bail. If convicted, all three could face life in prison.
Tom Schell, ABC News, Los Angeles.
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