MISSING CIA TURNCOAT TAKES ASYLUM IN USSR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00587R000100230005-3
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• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 27, 2011
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: August 8, 1986
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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.ki PAGE of 8 August 1986
MISSING CIA TURNCOAT
TAKESA4SYLUMJN. USSR
A FIRED CIA agent who vanished last Sep-
tember after- selling intelligence secrete to
the KGB turned up in the Soviet Union yes-
terday and was granted political asyluil. ,
Edward Lee Hewas%L 34, was identified' by
the',government newspaper Izvestia as a "fart
mer worker of the CIA" who was "given the
right of residence in
the USSR for political By MI J. BMi.Q1
reasons...
The brief announce. the KGB.
meat on Izvestia's back "He wiped out Mos-
page did not say where cow station," said one
Howard was, where he official.
hadbeen for the last 11 George Carver, a for-
months, monwhat he had mer CIA deputy direc-
tor, said Howard knew
Credit cards he took the names at some
with him were used in CIA People in Moscow
HelsiIIki and other as well as techniques
them
places outside the used
my knowbd "
Soviet Union, U.B. offi- Carver
cials have said said. "he V the
He is believed to be first to to go wit directsh to
the first CIA agent or thq
former agent to defect wealth of detail."
to the Soviet Union The result, he said.
and the first Amert, was a "loss of major
can to defect since the magnitude."
1940.. Howard was fired by
Howard was Bred by the CIA when he failed
the CIA in 1983 after a lie detector test and
two years of training as evidence turned up
a contact man for U.S. that he had a drinking
agenat? in Moscow. problem and had en-
He was fingered-as a gaged ed and Patty wife,
KGB Informer in July
1986 by Vitaly Yur- Mary, moved to Santa
chenka, the Russian Fe, where he worked
agent who defected to with the New Mexico
the U.S., then changed Legislative Finance
his mind and returned Committee.
to Moscow. His first known con-
Since Howard's dig- tact with the KGB
appearance, five took place in Septem-
American agepts have her 1984 In Austria,
been caught by the where the Howard.
Soviet secret police in were vacationing,
the Moscow area. After that trip, he
In addition, a Soviet displayed expensive
engineer who wanted watches, gold Kruger-
to provide topsecrgt rands and Soviet
technical data to the cigars to his friends in
U.S. was caught and New Mexico.
executed, sources It was not until last
said. August that he was fin.
U.& officials attri- gered by Yurehenko,
bute the roundup di- which prompted a new
rectly to the informa- FBI investigation into
tion Howard gave to his ackiot .
NEW YORK POST
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