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...District Court at Alexandria, Va. last week, Joseph Sydney Petersen Jr., 40, a gangling, cross-eyed former research analyst in the National Security Agency, the Government's topmost secret hive of codebreakers and message-interceptors, pleaded guilty to espionage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ESPIONAGE: To Avoid Embarrassment | 1/3/1955 | See Source »

...months ago, Petersen's lawyer leaked the information that his client, no Communist, was accused of spying for The Netherlands. The Dutch Embassy in Washington promptly admitted receiving secret intelligence from Petersen, but the Dutch said that they assumed Petersen's superiors knew he was passing on the information. This was an odd assumption since one of the secrets the Dutch learned from Petersen was the fact that the U.S. had cracked Dutch codes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ESPIONAGE: To Avoid Embarrassment | 1/3/1955 | See Source »

...PETERSEN PRESIDENT STANDARD OIL CO. OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 22, 1954 | 11/22/1954 | See Source »

Tall, shambling, cross-eyed and bespectacled, Petersen flushed and hung his head when arraigned. At first, he did not want a hearing, a lawyer or any attempt to get freedom on bail. Born in New Orleans, he went to Catholic schools and took a master's degree in science at St. Louis University. He taught physics before entering the Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Pipeline via Paris? | 10/18/1954 | See Source »

...centers of secret information, the National Security Agency, which operates behind heavy guards and a double row of metal fencing at Arlington Hall, near the Pentagon. Its thousands of employees are cautioned not to tell anyone where they work. The agency is not even listed in standard Government directories. Petersen had complete access to all of the agency's secrets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Pipeline via Paris? | 10/18/1954 | See Source »

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