CLERK ONLY FOURTH CIA EMPLOYEE CHARGED WITH SPYING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00587R000100500010-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 25, 2011
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: July 12, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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WASHINGTON TIMES
12 July 1985
Clerk only fourth CIA employee
charged with spying
y John McCaslin
HE WASHINGTON TIMES
The arrests of Sharon M.
Scranage, the Central Intelligence
Agency clerk, and her reported
lover on espionage charges marked
the fourth time the CIA has publicly
charged an employee.
Intelligence sources said that the
use of sexual relationships is a clas-
sic approach used by many secret
services to acquire sensitive doc-
uments and information from other-
wise competitive or hostile
governments.
FBI agents this week were able to
capture Michael Soussoudis, the
Ghanaian who allegedly approached
and persuaded Miss Scranage to
divulge vital U.S. information.
A U.S. intelligence expert said the
alleged charges represent "just the
tip of the iceberg" concerning pen-
etrations into the CIA.
Most such cases, the source said,
if discovered, result in quiet dis-
missal. Rarely do details of the
operation become public, for to do so
often requires revealing sensitive
intelligence information in court.
One of the agency's most famous
cases was brought against David
Henry Barnett, a former covert CIA
agent in Indonesia. Barnett was
charged in 1980 with selling the
Soviets the identities of CIA agents
in Indonesia and the identities of
Indonesians cooperating with the
CIA
Barnett left the agency in 1970
and developed financial problems.
His activities netted him $93,000. He
was sentenced to 18 years in prison
after pleading guilty.
A former CIA clerk, William P.
Kampiles, was arrested and charged
in 1978, with having sold a top-secret
manual to the Soviets for $3,000.
The publication for the U.S. KH-11
spy satellite was spirited out of CIA
headquarters while Kampiles was
employed as a clerk there. He was
convicted and sentenced to 40 years
in prison.
Karl F. Koecher, a former contract
translator for the CIA, was arrested
in New York City in 1984 on charges
of supplying U.S. secrets to the
Czechoslovakian intelligence serv-
ice. He is still awaiting trial.
Ms. Scranage, 29, a CIA oper-
ations support assistant, was
charged with conspiracy to commit
espionage by supplying U.S. secrets
to Michael Agbotui Soussoudis, 39, a
citizen of Ghana and a relative of
that African nation's head of state.
The information allegedly
involved U.S. spy operations in
Ghana during tie time she was
assigned to the CIA station in that
country.
. Mr. Soussoudis was arrested Wed-
nesday in a Springfield hotel.
"In the past there have been cases
of local love affairs between our
employees and foreigners, but the
CIA enforces a strict rule of not per-
mitting staff personnel to marry for-
eign nationals," said John K.
Greaney, a general counsel with the
CIA until 1980.
Roy Godson, Washington director
of the National Strategy Information
Center and an intelligence expert,
commenting on the latest case, said,
"Instead of just focusing on Soviet-
bloc personnel in other countries,
U.S. counterintelligence should also
be seeking to protect our activities"
within those countries."
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