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Officials attribute the growing number of spy arrests both to an increase in espionage and to stepped-up counterintelligence efforts by the FBI and CIA (see box). The most spectacular catch came last summer with the arrest of John Walker, a retired Navy communications specialist who sold secrets to the Soviets for 17 years with the help of his son Michael, 23, his brother Arthur and, allegedly, his friend Jerry Whitworth...
...three latest cases have increased the sense of alarm in Washington that the U.S. intelligence community has been lax in detecting moles within its midst. Yet many saw the arrests as the fruits of an intensive crackdown. "I think it was a good week," FBI Director William Webster said in an interview with TIME. "It shows that those who want to betray have a substantial risk on their hands of being detected and prosecuted and given severe sentences." In his weekly radio address on Saturday, President Reagan declared, "We will not hesitate to root out and prosecute the spies...
...Pollard became a civilian analyst at the Naval Investigative Service in Suitland, Md. He first came under suspicion last month when co-workers reported that he had been taking home classified material. Two weeks ago FBI agents confronted Pollard as he was leaving his office. He was carrying about 60 highly classified papers on the military and intelligence capabilities of several foreign countries. During questioning, Pollard confessed to receiving $2,500 a month since early 1984 in exchange for U.S. documents that he gave to Israeli contacts in Washington. Agents later discovered a suitcase crammed with top-secret papers...
...frightened analyst and his wife agreed to cooperate with the FBI and were placed under 24-hour surveillance. But according to one agent, after a couple of days Pollard "just freaked out" and called an official at the Israeli embassy. "If you can shake your surveillance," Pollard later said the Israeli told him, "you should come in." That morning Pollard and his wife drove into the compound seeking political asylum. After ten minutes they were escorted back outside into the waiting arms of FBI agents...
Thomas Cavanagh was a Northrop Corp. employee with military secrets to sell. In search of a buyer, he called Soviet emissaries in the U.S., arranged a meeting and offered "Stealth" bomber technology for a piddling $25,000. Even for so little, his hosts were not about to accept. The FBI had intercepted his original call, and the men to whom he was hawking his wares were undercover FBI agents. He was arrested, convicted and sentenced to life...