3 SECRET PHOTOS CALLED NOTHING TO SOVIETS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00965R000605470018-4
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 8, 2012
• Sequence Number: 18
• Publication Date: October 12, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Declassified and Approved For Release 2012/05/08: CIA-RDP90-00965R000605470018-4
WASHINGTON POST
12 October 1985
3 Secret Photos Called
Nothing New to Soviets
AU Professor Testifies in Navy Spy Trial
By George Lardner Jr.
Richelson, however, said public
sources have provided much detail
about the KH-11 and other satellite
programs, such as their flight paths
over the Soviet Union, their altitude
(75 to 155 miles), and the fact that
they and another so-called Keyhole
satellite, the KH-9, are launched by a,
Titan 3D rocket. He rattled off the
data so fast that at one point U.S.
District Judge Joseph Young inter-
rupted him angrily, evidently in fear
that some classified data might be
tumbling out.
"I don't want you rambling on as
though you were teaching a course
at American University, is that un-
derstood?" Young demanded.
Richelson, who did a three-vol-
ume study on what was publicly
available about the satellite recon-,
naissance programs only to see the
compilation classified Top Secret,
said that he did.
He said it was well known that
that the KH-11 sends its pictures
back to Washington by way of an-
which was.found to carry Morison's
right thumbprint.
Vice Adm. Sir Roy Halliday, di-
rector of British military intelli-
gence until last fall, said the pic-
tures were returned to him at
Whitehall Sept. 12, 1984, by mes-
senger from lane's Defence Week-
ly In the same envelope was a note
frbm Jane's Managing Director Sid-
ney Jabkson that said "no security
classification or other information
appeared on the prints. The cut in
the top left-hand corner was made
before we received them."
Morison later admitted to the
FBI that he cut the Secret markings
from the top of the photos.
Halliday said outside court today
that Jane's, which could have been
subjected to Britain's Official Secrets
Act, yielded the photos readily.
BALTIMORE, Oct. 11-Publi-
cation of three secret KH-11 spy
satellite photos in a British maga-
zine last year told the Soviets noth-
ing important that they did not
know already, according to testimo-
ny today at the espionage trial of
former Navy intelligence analyst
Samuel Loring Morison.
Testifying for the defense, Amer-
ican University Prof.,J-effrey T. Ri=