CANADIAN FACES BRITISH SPY CHARGE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000200710038-0
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• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 5, 2010
• Sequence Number: 38
• Publication Date: November 30, 1982
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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faces British
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THE BOSTON GLOBE
30 November 1982
LUNWN - A Canadian professor
led may that he passed -NATO
information that might have
! The prosecution charged that Hugh
- Tlambleton, 60, who teaches economics
Laval University in Quebec, had
for nearly 30 years in almost con-
th
e
e world, but mainly sn Quebec
d Paris.
It was the second case involving na-
tiDna) s=sr1ty before London's Old Bai,
ley criminal court yesterday. Earlier. a
-British woman diplomat received a
nine-month suspended prison sentence
for breaching the Official Secrets Act.
Rhona Ritchie, 30-year-old first sec-
retary at the British embassy in Tel
Aviv, admitted passing details of confi-
dential government telegrams to her
-Egyptian lover in November.
Hamb)eton, who has dual British
and Canadian nationality, was arrest-
ed on a visit to London in June.
Atty. Gen. Sir Michael Havers said
the professor passed a great deal of
classified material to Moscow while
working at NATO's economic and fi-
nance division in Paris between 1956
and 1961.
Rhona Ritchie leaves London's Old Bailey courthouse yesterday after sentenced for passing British information to her
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Egyptian lover.
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Hambleton told British police he ai inquiry with Soviet leader Yuri Andro- unmaski into . and ritlsh s viter the
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The professor thought Andropov
wanted him to give a political and eco-
nomic assessment. Havers said.
Defense sources said a-lance corpor-
a] in Britain's army intelligence also
-could face charges under the Official
Secrets Act. But the sources stressed no
information had changed hands.
The three cases coincide with calls
from the right wing of Britain's govern-
ing Conservative Party 4or a full judiei-
The prosecution said most of the evi-
dence against Hambleton came from
his interviews with British police after
his arrest...
Havens said the professor first was
approached by the KGB. in Canada 30
years ago. The' professor dly told
police he passed Moscow details of
NATO documents dealing with econom-
ic information. oil and politics and said
Moscow continually wanted him to
evaluate what NATO was likely to do.
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