Counterintelligence
News and Developments. "Spy Dies in
Prison." Mar. 1998. [http://www.nacic.gov]1. Jeffrey M. Carney
2. James M. Clark (see Theresa Marie Squillacote)
3. Clyde Lee Conrad
4. Judith Coplon
5. Jack E. Dunlap
6. Noel Field
7. Kenneth Wayne Ford, Jr.
8. Jane Foster
9. George and Marisol Gari
10. Noshir Gowadia
Sgt. Jeffrey M. Carney was an Air Force linguist at an NSA listening post in Berlin from 1982 to 1984. He defected to East Berlin in 1985 and passed on secrets; in 1991, he was sentenced to 38 years in prison. 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.
Retired Army Sergeant Clyde Lee Conrad was arrested in 1988 by Federal Republic of Germany authorities and tried for espionage on behalf of the Hungarian and Czechoslovak intelligence services between 1976 and 1988. He was convicted by the Koblenz State Appellate Court on June 6, 1990, and sentenced to life in prison.
Four others were later convicted on espionage charges in Florida for involvement with Conrad's spy ring:
Roderick James Ramsay, sentenced in August 1992 to 36 years in prison;
Jeffrey Rondeau and Jeffrey Gregory, sentenced in June 1994 to 18 years each;
and Kelly Therese Warren, sentenced on 12 February 1999 to 25 years in prison. Associated Press, "Former Soldier Gets 25 Years for Her Role in Espionage Plot," Washington Post, 13 Feb. 1999. [http://www.washingtonpost. com] Reuters, "Woman Gets 25-Year Term for Spying in Germany," New York Times, 14 Feb. 1999. [http://www.nytimes.com] Counterintelligence News and Developments, "Former Army Clerk Sentenced," Mar. 1999. [http://www. nacic.gov]
Counterintelligence
News and Developments. "Spy Dies in
Prison." Mar. 1998. [http://www.nacic.gov]
"Clyde Lee Conrad ... died on January 8, 1998, in a German prison where he was serving a life sentence. The 50-year-old Conrad was convicted of masterminding an espionage ring that sold highly sensitive information to Hungarian and Czechoslovak intelligence agents from 1975 to 1985."
4. Judith Coplon
Mitchell, Marcia, and Thomas Mitchell. The Spy Who Seduced America. Montpelier, VT: Invisible Cities Press, 2002.
Bath, NIPQ 19.1/2, notes that the authors conclude that, based on the Venona transcripts, Judith Coplon was indeed a spy. However, "the government's unceasing efforts to convict on the basis of inept investigation and tainted evidence" also made her a victim.
For Jonkers, Intelligencer 13.2, this story is still relevant because it teaches "how NOT to prosecute an accused spy." (Emphasis in original) The reviewer's bottomline: "Good reading, deep secrets, still relevant -- a triple hit."
Leab, I&NS 20.2 (Jun. 2005), finds that the authors have "used intelligently a wide range of sources.... The book is a good read."
To Peake, Studies 47.2 (2003), the Mitchell's "have done a superb job of researching this famous case. And although their decision not to include endnotes is impossible to comprehend, [footnote omitted] they did indicate in the text the major sources used." And they "leave no room for doubt as to Coplon’s guilt.... Judy Coplon’s notorious story is a major part of counterintelligence history and the Mitchells have brought it to life in vivid terms. It is a great read."
Sgt. Jack E. Dunlap was a NSA courier who allegedly sold secrets to the Soviet Union for three years; he killed himself while under investigation in 1962. 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.
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Toledano, Ralph. "The Noel Field Story." American Mercury
80 (Apr. 1955): 5-8.
Petersen: "Soviet agent in State Department, League of Nations, and relief organizations in Europe, 1930-1940s."
Lewis,
Flora. Red Pawn: The Story of Noel Field. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1965. The Man Who Disappeared: The Strange History of Noel Field.
London: Arthur Barker, 1965.
Constantinides: This is a "fine study" that puts "Field and his activities for the Soviets and OSS in proper perspective and at the right level of importance" -- that is, "a minor figure who played a negligible role."
Castaneda, Ruben. "Md. Man on Trial Over NSA Documents." Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2005, B5. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
Kenneth W. Ford, Jr., who worked as a computer expert at NSA, is on trial in U.S. District Court in Greenbelt, Maryland, "on charges that he took national security documents without authorization. Ford is also accused of failing to inform a prospective private-sector employer, who required him to have a security clearance, that he was charged with taking the secret documents illegally."
Shane, Scott. "Ex-Federal Employee Indicted on Documents Charge." New York Times, 24 May 2005. [http://www.nytimes.com]
Former NSA employee Kenneth Wayne Ford Jr. has been "indicted in Maryland for possession of classified documents. The federal indictment said ... Ford ... left the agency in late 2003 and was arrested on Jan. 12, 2004, for illegally possessing secret information 'relating to the national defense.'"
Associated Press, 24 May 2005, adds that the 23 May 2005 indictment included "charges of unlawfully possessing classified national defense information and making a false statement" in a submission to Lockheed Martin for a security clearance.
U.S. Attorney's Office. District of Maryland. "Former Maryland NSA Employee Convicted of Wrongfully Possessing Classified Information." 16 Dec. 2005. [http://usaomd.blogspot.com/2005_12_11_usaomd_archive.html]
On 15 December 2005, "a federal jury convicted Kenneth Wayne Ford, Jr., ... on charges of unlawfully possessing classified information related to the national defense, and making a false statement to a U.S. government agency."
Foster,
Jane. An Unamerican Lady. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1980.
Constantinides notes that Foster, who worked in Morale Operations with OSS during World War II, was indicted with her husband in 1957 as Soviet agents. In discussing her OSS experiences, Foster "relates much about personal, social, and administrative matters but precious little about her operations." With regard to the charges brought against her, she denies being a Soviet agent but admits that she lied about her Communist Party membership and marital status. The indictment against Foster came on the basis of information from FBI double agent Boris Morros. See Morros' My Ten Years as a Counterspy (1959).
Seper, Jerry. "Couple Charged as Spies." Washington Times, 1 Sep. 2001. [http://www. washtimes.com]
George and Marisol Gari were arrested on 31 August 2001 and charged with "conspiracy to act as agents of a foreign government without proper identification or notice to the attorney general." U.S. authorities say that they were members of "the largest Cuban spy ring ever detected,... 'La Red Avispa,' or the Wasp Network, five members of whom were convicted in June of conspiring to spy on the United States for Fidel Castro's regime."
Regan, Tom. "More Charges against B2 Bomber Designer Accused of Spying: Indicted Engineer Pleads 'Not Guilty' to Selling Secrets to China, Israel, and Others." Christian Science Monitor, 13 Nov. 2006. [http://www.csmonitor.com]
Noshir Gowadia, indicted in November 2005 for selling secrets about the B2 stealth bomber to China, "has been charged with additional counts of spying in an indictment returned by a grand jury last week." ABC News has reported that Gowadia "was also accused of trying to sell more US classified military information to individuals in Israel, Germany, and Switzerland." Gowadia was "one of the lead engineers" on the B2 bomber project.
Gertz, Bill. "Engineer Indicted on Spying." Washington Times, 12 Dec. 2007. [http://www.washingtontimes.com]
According to a federal indictment, former U.S. defense contractor Noshir S. Gowadia "spent more than two years working with China's military to design and test a radar-evading component for a new Chinese cruise missile as part of an espionage conspiracy." The indictment states that Gowadia "he worked closely with a Chinese government agent and missile technicians to illegally supply the stealth-missile technology during six visits to China between 2003 and 2005."
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