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Both the phone call and the traceable deposits were careless tradecraft on Ames' part, particularly given the intelligence climate in Washington. The year before, so many Americans had been discovered spying for Moscow -- Edward Lee Howard, Ronald Pelton, John Walker -- that the press had dubbed 1985 "the year of the spy." Pelton and Howard had both been exposed by Yurchenko, the senior KGB officer who had been debriefed by Ames and others before redefecting three months later...
...more serious objection from many in the intelligence community is that Woodward's expose has divulged classified information that will damage U.S. spying efforts. The book, for example, includes a detailed explanation of Ivy Bells, an eavesdropping operation aimed at Soviet underwater cables, betrayed to Moscow by Spy Ronald Pelton -- details that the Post refrained from printing last year in response to pleas from Casey that it would harm national security. Woodward insists he carefully weighed security considerations and excised any information that might damage ongoing operations. Still, ex-CIA Director Richard Helms charged that such disclosures harm the agency...
...senior White House official has already declared, "These cases taken together are likely as significant as the worst hits of the past." They were at least as serious, he claimed, as the Navy's Walker-family spy ring, the sale of secrets by the National Security Agency's Ronald Pelton and the defection of former CIA Employee Edward Howard. The damage could extend far beyond matters related to the Soviets. The Moscow embassy is on the distribution list for a wide range of foreign policy material, including details of U.S. negotiating positions in the Geneva arms talks, background on Nicaragua...
Flug, who currently teaches Expository Writing 17: "The Theory and Practice of Writing," has been an assistant senior tutor since 1982, and she became the acting senior tutor since last July when Lee M. Pelton left to be dean of students at Colgate University...
College officials have been conducting a search for a permanent replacement for Pelton since the fall...