CIA COVER EXPOSED IN GHANA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00587R000100500009-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 18, 2011
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: July 12, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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~A USA TODAY
,A 12 July 1985
CIA cover e)qx)sed
in G
By Sam Meddis
USA TODAY
A CIA clerk 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 At-
rican nation.
CIA clerk Sharon M. Scran?
and Michael Agbotul Soumou.
dis, 39, a citizen of Ghana, face
life in prison, FBI Director Wit-
ham H. Webster said.
An FBI affidavit said the spy-
ing began in 1983 when Scran.
age, then with the CIA for sev-
era, Ghana. Authorities believe
the two became lovers.
dadonn of Former Into gene
Omcers said the use of sex is a
classic esplonagmvcruiftnent
technique: "A 'honey trap,' is
what the Soviets call it."
Scranw a divorcee who
earm $22,000 year,
she gave Souseoudb the names
of CIA agents and confidential
Informants in Ghana, along
with CIA report on Ghan alan
aledder I.ibry Rawlings' efforts
Sdavit said. Soou~dis the
bbe-
lieved to be Rawlings' nephew.
The CIA recalled agents
from Ghana after uncovering
the spying, authorities said.
Soussoudis was arrested
Wednesday, Scranage Thurs.
day - both in northern Virgin-
ia. Sc ana ge is the fourth (IAA
employee charged with spying
against the United States.
In another case,
federal
judge Baltimore Thursday
refused to set bail 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, Ar6
thur Walker's lawyers will ar-
gue in dosed court that his ad-
missions to the FBI shouldn't
be used as evidence.
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