NUMBER OF SPY CASES INCREASING

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 9, 2012
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• Publication Date: June 3, 1985
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WASHINGTON POST
3 June 1985
Number of Spy Cases Increasing
Money, Availability of Classified Information Called Factors
he said, vowing that the Walkers, if gence matters. Of those, a conser-
.they are convicted or plead guilty, vative estimate would be that 30 to
will not "get off light." 40 percent are working as intelli-
Law enforcement officials say gene officers, he said. "We are
they are convinced that the com- faced with a huge counterintelli-
mon denominator between the gene problem," Godson said.
Walkers and others accused of es-
pionage in recent years is the desire
for financial gain.
warrant officer John A. Walker Jr.;
his brother, Arthur Walker, a re-
tired Navy lieutenant commander
'and his son Michael Walker, a sea-
'man on the USS Nimitz, at least
eight persons currently face
charges of spying for the Soviet
Union or Soviet bloc countries.
While there were no federal pros-
ecutions for espionage between 1966
and 1975, there have been 37 cases
since then, of which 27 involved the
Soviet Union or its allies, Assistant
Attorney General Stephen Trott said
yesterday on the CBS television pro-
gram "Face the Nation."
"Last year was our most produc-
tive year in terms of catching espi-
onage activities," Trott said. "I be-
lieve, and the people with whom I've
consulted believe, that there both is
more espionage going on now, num-
ber one, and number two, we've got-
ten a lot better in detecting it."
Although Navy Secretary John F.
Lehman Jr. is considering having
John and Arthur Walker, both of the
Norfolk area, recalled to active ser-
vice and court-martialed rather than
tried in a civilian court, "the case is
going to be tried in federal courts not
in military court," Trott said. [Sailors
in Norfolk react to Walker case.
Page B1.]
"We believe we can do that with-
out compromising any of the se-
crets that are involved in this case,"
By Ruth Marcus
a++:em rata staff Wr*w It says in the KGB manual,
Three Navy men accused of spy- 'Americans can be bought,' " Bill
wader, for the Soviet Union represent assistant director the FBI,
the latest in an accelerating number said in an interview last last week.
of espionage cases that have snared "It's a way to make money,"
Americans ranging from an FBI Trott said,
agent allegedly lured by money and That motivation differentiates
sex to. a California aerospace engi- modern-day spies from their coun-
neer who tried to sell Stealth bomb- terparts in previous years, when
er secrets to the Soviets. ideological solidarity with the So-
In addition to retired Navy chief viet Union was a driving force for
many accused of espionage.
"Most of the cases in the thirties
and forties. those who spie for for-
eign powers did it for ideological
reasons," former deputy irec-
Sor bbv Ray Inman said on
the Nation" yesterday. "I don't
know of a single case in the last 15
years where ideology had a role at
all. People are selling secrets for
cash."
-Tow, however, "spies come in all
different sizes, shapes, colors, back-
grounds, philosophies and anybody
who-has access to this type of in-
formation, who has some sort of a
strange personal situation going on,
or a shaky financial situation going
on, is liable to be this type of per-
son," Trott said.
Among the reasons for the surge
in espionage cases, government of-
ficials and other observers say, are
the increase in the number of So-
viets assigned to the United States,
stepped-up enforcement and the
growth in both the number of
Americans cleared to see classified
information and the amount of in-
formation deemed sensitive.
As restrictions eased during the
era of detente, the number of So-
viet nationals living legally in the
United States has doubled during
the last decade, according to
Georgetown University professor
Roy Godson, an expert on intelli-
Another unknown number of So-
viet agents are in the country illegal-
ly, passing themselves off as Amer-
icans and, in addition to regular es-
pionage activities, attempting to take
such so-called "active measures" as
influencing the media and govern-
mental decisions, Godson said. '
He cited the case of Col. Rudolph
Albert Herrmann a KG'Saagent ne FBI m 1980 w spent
11 years collecting ih intelli-
gence and arranging secret ex-
changes of information with other
Soviet intel i ence o ratives while
posing as a free-lance photographer
living in the New York City suburbs.
en. Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.). the
ranking minority member on the
Senate telli ence Committee. has
introduced a measure to limit the
viet Union to the same number o in-
dividuals with diplomatic immunity
here as the United States has in
"I see no reason at all why we
should allow them to have-Me-se
large num rs of people
. "
Leahy said. "We seem to bend over
backward to do their job for them
Leahy also called for a reappraisal
of the number of people with access
to defense secrets. "We have 4 mil-
lion people in this countwith se-
curity clearances," he said. "'hat's
crazy People apply for security
c earances, and 99 percent of them
get it. can't believe that that's
showing care."
Another reason for the Soviets'
apparent improved success in re-
cruiting spies,- observers said, is a
perceived decline in feelings of pa-
triotism.
"You've got the 'Me Generation'
running ram an said former CIA
official -George . Carver Jr.
You ve of the o s ring o a gen-
eration wis is not very ideolog-
ically motivate , which is ex aor-
mari y self-oriented ... which
thinks, the Soviets can
t h-'- -trial needs, atriotism
that means not m .
Continued
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One aspect of the Walker case that
has officials particularly worried is
that, although John Walker had al-
legedly been spying for the Soviets
since 1968, the FBI was tipped off to
the case only after a "walk-in" con-
fidential source contacted them.
That differentiates the Walker
case from most other recent
charges of espionage..FBI officials
were prompted to investigate Rich-
ard W. Miller, the first bureau
member ever charged with espio-
nage, after it started surveillance of
Svetlana Ogorodnikova, a Soviet
emigrant housewife, whose con-
tacts with the Soviet consulate be-
came frequent. Agents watching
Ogorodnikova discovered that Mill-
er had developed a personal rela-
tionship with the woman, who was
working for the KGB, according to
FBI officials.
The case against former Army
counterintelligence specialist is -
ard Crai Smith, awaitm trig on
char es o se m t e Soviet pion
information about American oub1
agents, starte wen surve ance
showed him in front o a ovie
c ompoun in
To yo.
An aeros ace en ineer Thomas
Patrick avana sentence last
month to life in prison for trying to
sell Stealth bomber secrets to te
Soviet Union. was snared when So-
viet a ents to whom he planned to
se information stolen' from or-
t rop Corp. turn
out to be
-R- FBI
undercover agents.
ome o t e allures ... to find
out when this kind of stuff is going
on is nothing more than a byproduct
of the liberty that we enjoy in this
country . . . ," Trott said. "One of
the prices that you pay is that occa-
sionally" somebody "will take advan-
tage of it and become a spy."
Staff correspondents Laura LaFay
and Sara Isaac contributed to this
report.
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