ACCUSED SPY'S CLAIM: HE WAS DOUBLE AGENT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000200710034-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 5, 2010
• Sequence Number: 34
• Publication Date: December 2, 1982
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
2 December 1982
Accused Spy aim-
He was double agent
London (Combined
Canadian professor accused by-Britain r
of- spying #oi the KGB and betraying
NATO secrets to Moscow was.a double-.
agent for=:Canada and France -who`
successfully 'penetrated Soviet-. inteUi
gence, his defense. said yesterday. -
who should have known about it said'
he didn't believe the claim.
Prof. Hugh Hambleton, charged
with photographing secret Western
documents and passing them to Soviet
agents while working at the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization's Paris
headquarters from 1956.61, has pleaded,
Defense. counsel john.'Lloyd-Eley
disclosed it the Old Bailey, Britain's
leading criminal court, the double
agent defense in cross-examining the
Scotland Yard Special Branch officer
who interrogated Hamblet.on, 60, in
London last June. . -
"DID YOU KNOW that the defense
--in this case would be that Prof. Hamb- Prof. Hugh Hambleton--pleads "
leton was at all material times a innocent to tng charges.-- ,
ami
cessfully penetrated the Russian
espionage. organization?"- Lloyd-Eley ence, Canada's46lieitor general-in-the the,
asked Detective Supt John Westeott' -L
97M Progressive Conservative.gov=
-1 heard. something to that effect ernment; who was responsible for the
this morning," Westcott said. Royal :Cana@iu-'Mounted_Police'~iw-]ien_
Westcott siid.he was.aware only of 'it arrested 'Hambleton in 1979.""
news reports that the Canadian govern-
ment LAWRENCE TOLD repoi~tera in
in 1980 publicly waived spy
charges *against-- Hambleton after Ottawa he was not informed'atIbe time
Soviet espionage equipment and NATO . that the professor was a double agent
-documents were"found in~his.,posses- . "If it turns out to be.fte....I can
sion in Ottawa.- assure you all `hell is -going 'to'break"
The officer said he had beenordered loose," he said
not to -ask -the Canadian..'poliee-for .Canadian -.Juwstice : 41inister-- Marla
copies of their interviews with Ramble= ;MacGuigan ed Mcommen * oh
ton when he was underinv Hambleton's defeaseand.askedopposi-
estigation in
November-1979 . res,,- tion- membersii6f..-%Parliameat of so.
on ihe.,gov~ernsnerit~eriTll* a~Se
Hambleton's clagn of~e Beao~ a -questi
agent was. chalY a 1 1 m t e iraalsir'uc?aecludadsa
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