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According to Kessler, the National Security Agency did indeed find Soviet bugs in the code room in August 1987. The KGB had replaced key circuit boards in the printers; it had also replaced the power line to the communications center. The reprogrammed circuit boards sent an uncoded copy of the...
The damage from this "intelligence debacle" was topped off by a further scandal, said Kessler: the NSA and CIA had concealed their findings from the State Department. And to this day, Kessler contends, they have continued to suppress evidence of the most serious U.S. intelligence breach of the past 25...
Exhaustive analysis of equipment from the Moscow code room found no evidence of bugs. Authoritative officials at the NSA, CIA and State Department -- including sources who saw daily reports of the joint three-agency investigation -- are unanimous on this point.
In an unusual, on-the-record statement, the CIA has said that "the intelligence community in its investigation could not substantiate any unauthorized penetration" of the code room. The National Security Agency endorsed that conclusion in a letter to TIME. "No information was, or is being, withheld" from the State...
The most acrimonious of these had begun in the early 1980s with a push by the FBI to reduce the number of Soviet diplomats in the U.S. The State Department had resisted the bureau's initiative on the ground that the Soviets would retaliate by cutting the number of local...