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Barnett David

CIA operative, defector

He was a CIA officer in the East in Korea, later in Indonesia. In 1970 he quitted the CIA and began to undertake. After his bankrupt he began to be paid by the Russians. The KGB got thirty names of CIA agents in USSR, who were reported missing short time later. He sold CIA plans of spying on Soviet military technologies. In total, he got 92,000 US dollars. The FBI got him in 1980 and he was jailed for 18 years.

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