SPY: THE LONG NIGHT IN THE TWILIGHT ZONE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000200710031-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 5, 2010
• Sequence Number: 31
• Publication Date: December 3, 1982
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
3 December 1982
90-00806 R000200710031-7
Spy: The long night
in the twilight zone I
London (AP)-Hugh Hambleton; the -
Soviet spy who claims he was a double
agent for Canada and France, took the
stand at his espionage trial yesterday
and said an intelli-
gence officer named
Jean Masson was his
French control.
"Jean Masson
would bring me
documents that .1
would . photograph
and turn over to the
KGB contact," the
60-year-old British-
Canadian testified in
Hugh Hambleton -Hie, said Masson
was an official of the French Service
of External Documentation and Coun-
ter-Espionage but did not identify him
otherwise.
Hambleton, a professor of econo.
mica at Laval University in Quebec,
was on the NATO staff in Paris from
1956 to 1961. He is charged with spying
for the Soviets until 1979.
He said he was an intelligence offic-
er with the Free French forces in
World War II, operated behind the
German lines with the U.S. Counter-
Intelligence Corps and at the end of
the war was with Canadian military
intelligence.
HE SAID HIS first contact with the
Soviets was in 1950 or 1951, when at a
reception he met a KGB agent, "Boro-
din," who was first secretary and com-
merciaLattacbe- at the.Soviet;Embassy.
in -wawa:
He said Borodin and another Soviet
agent,. "Paul," contacted him again
when he was studying at the University-
of Paris in 1955. - -
Shortly afterward, he continued,
Masson and another man came to see _
him and satisfied 'him that they were
French intelligence officers.
"He (Masson) wanted me to maintain
a close relationship with them (the
Russians) at all times and report to him
periodically," Hambleton testified.
He :said he got the NATO job at,
Masson's instigation. Then followed
years of regular clandestine meetings-
in subways and other places with Paul
and other Soviet agents which he said
he reported to Masson.
When the Soviets gave him a camera
to photograph NATO documents, Mas-
son supplied him with documents that
had been "doctored" so that they
would not betray secrets, be continued.
DEFENSE LAWYER John- Lloyd.
Eley said Hambleton also would testify
that the Canadian intelligence service
arranged for Masson to handle him
during his NATO job.
In another development, Robin Gor-
don Walker, 36, the son of a former
British foreign secretary, has been
charged with breaching official secre.
cy, the public prosecutor announced.
Walker, a senior government in.
formation officer, was charged under
the Official Secrets Act with "failing to
take reasonable care of documents:"
He was ordered to.appear in court in
January.
STAT
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