SPY PHOTOS' SALE LEADS TO ARREST

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00845R000100560008-8
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 10, 2010
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: October 3, 1984
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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NEW YORK TIP'S
3 October 1984
SPY PHOTOS' SALE
LEADS TO ARREST
U.S. Naval Analyst Is Charged
With Giving Classified Data
to a British Magazine
By STEPHEN ENGELBERG
SP= *1 to The New York Times
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 - The Fed-
eral Bureau of Investigation said today
that it had arrested a United States
naval analyst and charged him with
selling classified satellite photographs
of a Soviet ship to a British weekly de-
fense publication.
A spokesman for the F.B.I. said
Samuel Loring Morison, a civilian ana-
lyst at the Naval Intelligence Support
Center in Suitland, Md., was arrested
Monday evening at Dulles Interna-
tional Airport.
Mr. Morison, 40 years old, of Crofton,
Md., is the grandson of Samuel. Eliot
Morison, a well-known naval historian.
An affadavit filed in Federal Court in
Maryland said Federal agents obtained
evidence in the Case by analyzing his
office typewriter ribbon to decipher a
letter he had written to a British editor.
Mr. Morison appeared today before a
United States Magistrate, W. Harris
Grimsley, and bond was set at $500,000.
Mr. Morison, a civilian employee of
the Navy since 1974, has been charged
with the unauthorized disclosure of
three photographs of a Soviet aircraft
carrier being built at a Black Sea naval
shipyard.
Pictures Published in u
The pictures were published Aug. 11
by Jane's Defense Weekly, a British
journal with a circulation of 22,500.
A spokesman for Jane's, Richard
Coltart, said that Mr. Morison was not
an employee of the weekly but that he
did receive a yearly retainer for his
work as United States editor of Jane's
Fighting Ships. A Federal affadavit
said he was paid $5,000 a year.
Mr. Coltart, in a telephone interview,
would not say how the weekly obtained
the. photographs of the Soviet ship. He
said the journal does not usually try to
buy classified information.
A Navy spokesman said Department
of Defense employees were not barred
from writing for publications such as
Jane's. But he said the material had to
be reviewed in advance. He could not
say if Mr. Morison had made such ar-
rangements.
The Federal affadavit submitted by
Jerald C. Wall of the F.B.I. and David
W. Swindle of the Naval Investigative
Service said the satellite photographs
were based on three pictures taken
from the Naval Intelligence Support
Center in late July.
In the investigation, Federal agents
seized Mr. Morison's office typewriter
and analyzed the ribbon to reconstruct
his correspondence. According to the
affadavit, Mr. Morrison wrote to Der-
rick Woods, the editor of Jane's De-
fense Weekly in July that he should not
expect a "shipment every week" be-
cause this would be "pushing his luck."
Mr. Morison is quoted as saying that
"he would continue sending items as
they appear of value." He then thanked
Mr. Woods "for the remuneration for
items sent," adding that "he had not
expected anything "
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