ACCUSED SPY: MISINFORMED SOVIETS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000200710032-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 5, 2010
• Sequence Number: 32
• Publication Date: December 3, 1982
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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THE WASHINGTON TIMES
3 DECEMBER 1982
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LONDON - A C
anadian university
professor accused of spying for the
Soviet Union claimed yesterday he was
a Western double agent who gave the
KGB misinformation "doctored" by
French counterespionage.
In another development, Robin Gor-
don Walker. 36, the son of a former
British foreign secretary. has been
charged with breaching official
secrecy, the public prosecutor
announced.
Walker. a senior government infor-
mation officer, was charged Wednes-
day under the Official Secrets Act with
"failing to take reasonable care of doc-
uments" and was ordered to appear in
court in January.
At London's Old Bailey court. Cana-
dian professor Hugh Hambleton, 60. of
Laval University, Quebec. testified.
against charges he spied for the KGB
while he worked in NATO's economic
and financial department in Paris from
1956 to 1961.
Hambleton denied charges he
removed documents from his office
overnight, photographed them and
handed the film to KGB agents in
working-class areas of the French cap-
ital.
He said he handed over photographs
of authentic-looking NATO documents
given him by a senior French counter-
espionage official he identified as Jean
Masson in an elaborate penetration
exercise against the Soviets.
Defense counsel John Lloyd-Eley
said he would prove the operation was
initiated by Canadian intelligence.
Attorney General Sir Michael
Havers said the claim Hambleton was
a Canadian-French double agent was
"an accusation of the utmost gravity
that a member-nation was running an
agent" inside NATO.
In early 1955. kiambleton said, be
became wary about his KGB contact
urging him to either get into Canadian
politics or try to join NATO. then based
in Paris. .
Hambleton said he was contacted by
Masson and agreed to help him feed
""raise information back into Russia.
"He would bring me the documents
which I would photograph and turn
them over to the KGB contact:' Ham-
bleton said. "He (Masson) doctored the
documents'- -
After photographing the documents
with a KGB-supplied camera . "1
destroyed theta:',tie-said.
Hambleton told the court he was
anti-Communist, spoke no Russian
"apart from nyet or da" - no or yes -
and never harmed British or Canadian
interests or passed the Kremlin data
"useful to an enemy:"
.
He said he was an intelligence offi-
cer with the Free French forces in
World War II. operated behind the Ger-
man lines with the U.S. Counter Intelli-
gence Corps and at the end of the war
was with Canadian military intelli-
gence.
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-
mercial attache at the Soviet Embassy
Prof. Hugh Hambleton
in Ottawa. He, said he believed the
man's real name was Vladimir
din. Baur
.
,He said Borodin and another-Soviet
agent. "Paul:' contacted him again
when he was studying at-the University
of Paris in 1955. -
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