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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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