WHITE HOUSE DENIES ESPIONAGE BLUNDER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000100020013-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 20, 2010
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: October 2, 1980
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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# TICLE APPLA1ZA- THE WASHINGTON POST
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2 October 1980
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.national security 'adviser,; at the party, sources say, came from the money the CIA paid him.. David I. Aaron, of the charge that he "blue line" documents. so secret that Footnote: Shortly after rflrst;utate:
inadvertently compromised a top U.S.,' only a trusted few insiders are allowed about thetTrigon case, two mebe~oP .: +
spy in the Soviet Union. to see them. There are several levels of the Senate Intelligence -0 , rritfee,
The White House has called the accu- `secrecy above top-secret. Some papers Daniel Patrick ivloynihan (D N.Yj"and
sation "completely unfounded" and anl, are stamped with code wor(?a .thir1,
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there's no substance to the allegation with bl 1'
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Certainly W~l1te`c
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high on the White House totem pole ? Only the mot House.
who would 'never. intentional) un a sensitive information Secret Warning Long befot~xhe-
Y ppears in blue-line documents. Aaron Iraqi Iranian outbreak theaint
mask'an American agent. Indeed--he alleged) t
lai may be as innocent as the White House-... pears diplo111~11 an mat) somet fa tsFthat had sec iefs et warning that arcris sn 1,11 ;tale .
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insists he is. But my own investigation come from a blue-line document deal- Persian G !f
indicates nth
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mg with Warsaw Pact nuclear weap- and that it "could curtail ;tpe~
In the subterranean world of half
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by the united States and
g ere espionage is practiced, the Apparently, a third world diplomat its all esIre
truth is always difficult to discern. Yet' happened to overhear Aaron'scareless m),o
my ocennin4.. T%_l_ TT__ -- ,-
I? ,,,,C,i,gence sources who The eavesdro -- - "'"I?c,"c worsening or the military:
are familiar with the case. They have versation in a cab
er the le' tophistown fore gn ' 11 balance in the Middle East;PeiSiaiiA
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the oil-prQc1 c
They claim that Aaron let slip some The cab) ing states in that area to much rent
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ultra secret information at a was intercepted . and - potential security threats."
party, decoded by America's ultra-secret Na- They foresaw the danger of Soviet,
that an intercepted diplomatic dis- ; tional Security Agency. The message intervention not "a bolt-from,the=11
patch proved he had talked out of turn was such an embarrassment to the blue nuclear. attack on the Qj (te(Q
and that the White House is more anx- White House that, under an executive States" but limited military action -Vlf?r
ious to cover- up the embarrassment order for the protection of private in- than to uncover the truth. dividuals, it was supposed to be de- gha"The nistan style-= in the early 19Us! ``
Aaron's slip allegedly exposed the stroyed. Yet I understand a copy was Stan, theofi stimajor Sov etAmericaltri
identity of Anatoly N. Filatov, a Soviet kept and might be ferreted out if the incident of the 1980s, may well ';he a'''I
intelligence-officer;'who worked un- FBI looked hard enou h: harbinger of the ater. risk~ {
dercover as an American agent known' Shortly thereafter, the CIA canceled tary onfrontat onwhich cane,forte
to the CIA by the code, name Trigon. all blue-line clearances.: This was done, seen in the decade to come," wrote 2fie
The unfortunate spy disappeared into sources say, because Aaron had com- Joint Chiefs. -
the Soviet prison system after a secret promised the documents and had They warned that Soviets Ioeces+"
military trial in 1978. "rolled up one of our agents:" could intervene in regional
The Soviet-press reported he' had The nuclear weapons information conflicts and become a threatptgi r~s rl
been executed. Some CIA officials be- that Aaron revealed, so the story goes, and Allied access to oil supplies .,_ na .1
'cow, lawyer claims he is still alive, serv sources, who confirm Aaron's other the., United States doesn't ha ort- d
ing out a 15-year sentence sli military. power stop them short o r
r ,y P, believe;Trigon wajreall x compro .{.nuclear retaliatio on, ~,! ...
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