Kirschner, Don S. Cold
War Exile: The Unclosed Case of Maurice Halperin. Columbia, MO: University
of Missouri Press, 1995.1. James W. Hall, III
2. Maurice Halperin
3. Victor N. Hamilton
4. Kitty Harris
5. Joseph G. Helmich, Jr.
6. Gerardo Hernandez
7. Robert Lee Johnson
James W. Hall, III, was an Army warrant officer and intelligence analyst in Germany who sold eavesdropping and code secrets to East Germany and the Soviet Union from 1983 to 1988; he is serving 40-year sentence for those activities. 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.
Kirschner, Don S. Cold
War Exile: The Unclosed Case of Maurice Halperin. Columbia, MO: University
of Missouri Press, 1995.
Clark comment: Accused by Elizabeth Bentley of passing OSS secrets to the Soviets during World War II, Maurice Halperin fled to Mexico, Moscow, Cuba, and eventually Vancouver. Was he a spy for the Soviet Union or a scapegoat during the peak of the McCarthy era?
Surveillant 4.4/5 calls this book "a sympathetic historical analysis of a dyed-in-the-wool leftist."
Hayden B. Peake, "OSS and the Venona Decrypts," Intelligence and National Security 12, no. 3 (Jul. 1997), 25-26, links Halperin to two cypytonyms in the Venona traffic -- "Hare" and, later, "Stowaway" -- but acknowledges that "there is no way to positively identify him as 'Hare' working solely from the messages released."
Victor N. Hamilton was an "Arabic linguist at NSA who defected to Moscow in 1963." He "has resided in [a] Russian hospital for 30 years, diagnosed with schizophrenia." 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.
Damaskin, Igor, and Geoffrey Elliott. Kitty Harris: The Spy with Seventeen Names. London: St. Ermin's, 2001.
Unsinger, IJI&C 17.1, finds that the authors "use Kitty Harris's life to explain a great deal about the USSR's International Department and its personnel." The Soviet files used by the authors "describe Harris not as a case officer, but simply a cutout for [Earl] Browder [from 1923 to 1929], doing his courier work." During World Warr II, "she began doing work in support of Soviet espionage efforts in the atomic energy sphere, in her usual capacity as courier and cutout." The book "is somewhat of a disappointment," in that it has "just a few quotes from papers in the KGB's Harris files."
Joseph G. Helmich, Jr., was a "former Army warrant officer who sold details of U.S. code machines to the Soviet Union from 1963 to 1966; arrested and sentenced to life in prison in 1981." 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.
Deavours,
Cipher A. "Helmich and the KL-7." Cryptologia 6, no. 3
(1982): 283-284.
Pressley, Sue Anne. "Five Cuban Agents Guilty of Spying on U.S." Washington Post, 9 Jun. 2001, A12. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
On 8 June 2001, a federal jury in Miami "convicted five Cuban agents of espionage against the United States.... The leader of the group, Gerardo Hernandez, was found guilty of contributing to the death of four fliers from the Brothers to the Rescue exile group who were shot down in 1996 in international airspace by Cuban MiGs. Prosecutors alleged that Hernandez steered fellow spies away from the targeted flights and delivered a message to Havana that led to the shootdown."
Barron,
John. "The Sergeant Who Opened the Door." Reader's Digest 104
(Jan. 1974): 187-194 ff.
Petersen: "Robert Lee Johnson sold NATO secrets to Russia."
Campbell,
Kenneth J. "Robert L. Johnson: The Army Johnnie Walker." American
Intelligence Journal 11, no. 2 (1990): 5-10. [Petersen]
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