A Record from Mary's Database
KGB Today, Barron (232-7)
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Worked as contract employee for CIA in Far East from 1958 to 1963 when he became a regular staff officer. Spent 2 yrs in Korea and 2 yrs at Langley, then was assigned to Surabao, Indonesia. He resigned in 1970 and entered business for himself, a fish processing company, P. T. Trifoods. He was unsuccessful and deeply in debt when he approached a Soviet attache in Djakarta in Oct. 1976 offering to tell the KGB all he knew about the CIA for $70,000. He gave KGB much valuable information, naming CIA agents, etc. They urged him to reenter the CIA, which he did, moving back to Bethesda, MD. He was apprehended 3/18/80, and sentenced to 18 yrs.