CIA COVER EXPOSED IN GHANA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00965R000504360008-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 27, 2012
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: July 12, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/02/28: CIA-RDP90-00965R000504360008-9
USA TODAY
3 12 July 1985
CIA cover exposed
in GI-MM
L-1 By Sam Meddi
USA TODAY
A CIA deft and a relative of
Ghana's leader were charged
Thursday with espionage in a
scheme the FBI says blew the
CIA's cover in the troubled Af-
rican nation.
CIA clerk Shama M Scran-29, of King George, ,
age, Michael Agbotul Souseouu-
dis, 39, a citlxeu of Ghana, face
life in prison, FBI Director Wil-
liam H. Webster said.
An FBI amdavlt said the spy-
ing began in 1983 when Scran?
age, then with the CIA for sev-
an years, was
Ac-
cra, Ghana. Authorities believe
the two became lovers.
John IC Greaney of the Aseo-
elation of Former Intelligence
Office= said the use of sex Is a
classic ~A 'boney ptment
technique:
what the Soviets call It."
Scranage, a divorcee who
earns $22,000 a year, admitted
she gave Soussoudis the names
of CIA agantq and d
informants In Ghana, along
with a CIA report on Ghanaian
leader Jerry Rawlings' efforts
to buy Libyan weapons, the at.
fidavit said. Souseoudis is be-
lieved to be Rawlings' nephew.
The CIA recalled agents
from Ghana after uncovering
the spying authorities said.
Soussoudis was arrested
Wednesday, Scranage Mrs-
day - both in northern V
VhVn-
ia. Scranage is the fourth CIA
employee charged with spying
against the United State.
In another case, a federal
Judge in Baltimore Thursday
refused to set ball for Navy
Seaman Michael Walker, 22,
accused of being part of a four-
man spy team headed by his
father John Walker and Includ-
ing his uncle Arthur Walker.
In Norfolk, Va., today, Ar-
thur Walker's lawyers will ar-
gue in dosed court that his ad-
missions to the FBI shouldn't
be used as evidence.
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/02/28: CIA-RDP90-00965R000504360008-9