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Embassy in Washington, D.C. These meetings were authorized by
the CIA and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and were
designed to allow petitioner access to Soviet officials as
possible sources for intelligence information and recruitment.
Sometime during April 1985, petitioner entered into a
relationship with Soviet officials under which he betrayed his
country and sold classified CIA information and information
sourced in other branches of the U.S. Government to the KGB (the
Soviet intelligence directorate) in return for large amounts of
remuneration. Petitioner provided the KGB with classified Top
Secret information relating to the penetration of the Soviet
military and intelligence services by the CIA, including the
identities of Soviet military and intelligence officers who were
cooperating with the CIA and foreign intelligence services of
governments friendly to the United States. Because of
petitioner’s disclosures, a number of these individuals were
arrested and executed by the KGB.
In the fall of 1985, petitioner received a communication
from a Soviet agent that $2 million had been set aside for him in
an account that he would be able to draw upon. Petitioner was
told that the money was being held by the Soviet Union, rather
than in an independent or third-party bank or institution, on
petitioner’s behalf. Petitioner received $50,000 in cash for his
initial disclosure to the KGB and additional cash payments, the
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