SPY SUSPECT SAID TO BE DOUBLE AGENT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000200710033-5
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• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 5, 2010
• Sequence Number: 33
• Publication Date: December 2, 1982
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
2 DECEMBER 1982
Cry Suspect.said
to be double agent
By Maureen.lo$nson
LONDON - The defense said yes
lerday :;hat a former :NATO econo-
mist o n ,trial as a Soviet - s p y . w a s a
double-agent working for' Canada
and 3trance. as well as for the Soviet
Union.
Are you-aware the defense in this
cage would be that Hugh Hambleton :
was at all material times a Canadian
and-French agent who successfully
penetrated the Russian espionage or-
ganization?" defense.attorney John
Uoyd-Eley asked a police witness
during the third day of Hambleton's
trial at the Old Bailey Central Crimi-
nal Court here. -
Detective -Supt., Peter 'Westcott,
-who helped interrogate Hambleton,
60. after his arrest in Britain in June,
replied that the first be knew of the
double-agent contention was in a
"hint" during a closed session of the
court earlier yesterday.' . ':'t- --
.I1 beard something to that effect
this morning," United Press Interna-
tional quoted W.estcott as saying.
(He said be was aware only of news
reports that the Canadian govern.
Meal, in 1980. waived spy charges
against Hambleton after Soviet espio-.
nage equipment and NATO docu-
ments were found in his possession.
(The officer said -be =bad been -or-
dered not to ask Canadian police for
copies of their interviews with
Hambleton when be was under in.
vestigation in November 1979.)
Lloyd-Eley made clear that Hamb-
leton would contend that members
of the French security service bad
visited him in Canada.:
Hambleton, a NATO economist in
Paris from 1956 to 1961-and an eco-
nomics professor at :Laval University
in, Quebec 'since 2964, pleaded -mot
guilty Monday to two cbarges of spy-'
ring torzbe Soviets between 1g56nnd
1979 ='' .~ ':d " C::? ..... _; : 5
Despite tbe'..plea, his attorneys
have not.challenged bis statements
to police after his arrat:in which he
described nearly .three.decades of
work for Soviet agents, .including
'photographing hundreds' of NATO
Vista-tements as outlined in;court
by the 'prosecution contained 130t
mention .of being -a double agent
Hambkton said be tried to ?a estrict-,
the information bepasssed'to.include
only undamaging material.. and be
quit his,jiATO job becaaxbe could
.no longer Cope."
-He alsosaid that be bad a "sense of
belonging" with tbe'KGB, the Soviet
secret police; and that be continued
working for the Soirees after be quit'
NATO.
He told pollee-that-Soviet.: agents
pushed" him to join NATO's eco-
nomic directorate in Paris, in his
1955 application, -read in court, be
offered- to.work without pay if DO.
paid post vas available because be,
,was eager Ito join an organization'
"which contributes so'direct)y to the
defense of the Free World."
Hambleton, wbb has dual Canadian
. and British nationality, was arrested
by Canadian police in- November,
1979, and evidence indicating espio-
nage was bound at his office and
borne 'and at his mother's home.
But Canadian . Solicitor General
Robert Kaplan told questioners Tues-
day in the House of Commons -in
Ottawa that the evidence was insnffi
cient to charge him under Canada's
Official Secpets Act. Kaplan said the
-law neede*d,.a-major'overhauL
Defense attorneys conceded earli-
er that tbe,material seized by Canadi-
an police included nine confidential
NATO documents, decoding and.mcs
sage-sending equipment and what
appeared to be instructions on loco-
tions of dead letter boxes. The NATO
documents dealt with Guinea. Bel-
gium. Turkey and Erance.and includ-
ed a general paper on oil .supplies.
-British Attorney General Sir Mi-.
?,chael Havers sold the court Tuesday
-that Raaibleton -while working ?ia
'Paris gave'tbe Soviets more than :80
'iop.secret NATO documents carrying'
the organization's "cosmic" c)assif-
cation; meaning disdIosr e.onuld rc -
stilt in "exceptionally grave damage"
to the alliance.
STAT
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