MAN ACCUSED AS SPY SAYS HE WAS WITH CIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000606240002-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 27, 2010
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: April 11, 1986
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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WASHINGTON TIMES
11 April 1936
Man accused as spy
says he was with CIA
By Pam McClintock
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
A former Army counterintelli-
gence officer testified yesterday
that he was working for the CIA
when he gave the Soviets informa-
tion concerning U.S. double-agent
operations in 1982 and 1983.
But, said Richard Craig Smith, the
intelligence agency didn't intervene
when he was arrested for espionage.
Taking the stand for more than
three hours in federal court in Alex-
andria, Mr. Smith said he did not tell
FBI agents of his involvement with
the CIA because he was by told a CIA
agent to keep his mouth shut and
"never say anything to anybody"
"I maintained the cover," said Mr.
Smith, who worked for the Army's
Intelligence and Security Command
from 1973 to 1980.
"I have never been a spy for the
Soviet Union," he said.
Mr. Smith's testimony came on the
fourth day of his trial on charges that
he received $11,000 in exchange for
transmitting classified information
to a KGB officer at the Soviet em-
bassy in 'Ibkyo.
Mr. Smith is charged with two
counts of espionage, one of conspir-
acy and two of passing secrets to the
Soviet Union and faces a maximum
penalty of life imprisonment. The
jury is expected to begin deliberat-
ing today.
Mr. Smith testified that the pur-
pose of turning over the information
was to penetrate Soviet intelligence
in Japan.
Mr. Smith told the jury that he was
instructed to keep quiet about the
operation during a phone conversa-
tion with former CIA agent Charles
Richardson in June 1983. Mr. Smith
said he contacted the CIA office
after he was unable to reach Ken
White and Danny Ishida, who he
claims were CIA agents who had set
up the operation.
But Mr. Richardson testified yes-
terday that he had never heard of Mr.
Smith before the June 1983 phone
conversation and that he did not tell
him to lie about what he had been
doing.
After his testimony, Mr. Richard-
son said that he also has never heard
of a Ken White or a Danny Ishida, or
any CIA employees using those
names as aliases.
The defense has contended that
two men who said they were CIA
agents asked Mr. Smith to turn over
the information to the Soviets. The
men worked for Mr. Richardson and
used a now-defunct Hawaiian com-
pany as a cover, the defense claimed.
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