Gertz,
Bill. "Intelligence Operation Red Star of Pelton Trial." Washington
Times, 2 Jun. 1986, A2.Ronald W. Pelton was an "NSA analyst for 14 years who quit in 1979 after falling deeply in debt; sold NSA secrets to the Soviet Union in meetings with KGB agents in Vienna, Austria, from 1980 to 1986; arrested in 1986 after an NSA colleague recognized his voice on a tapped Soviet Embassy phone; now serving three life terms." Scott Shane, "Some at NSA Betrayed Country," from Scott Shane and Tom Bowman, "No Such Agency," Baltimore Sun, reprint of six-part series, 3-15 December 1995, 6. See also Allen and Polmar, Merchants of Treason.
Gertz,
Bill. "Intelligence Operation Red Star of Pelton Trial." Washington
Times, 2 Jun. 1986, A2.
Schmidt,
Susan. "Pelton Convicted of Selling Secrets." Washington Post,
6 Jun. 1986, A1.
Tyler,
Patrick. "Supersecret Work Revealed." Washington Post,
28 May 1986, A1.
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