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<text id=91TT0341>
<title>
Feb. 18, 1991: American Notes:Espionage
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
Feb. 18, 1991 The War Comes Home
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
NATION, Page 45
American Notes
ESPIONAGE
Oversexed and Underpaid
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<p> It took almost seven years and three trials, but in Los
Angeles last week, Richard Miller, 54, was sentenced to 20
years in prison, thus becoming the only FBI agent ever
convicted of spying.
</p>
<p> But this is a thriller that owes more to Peter Sellers than
to John le Carre. In 1984, when the bumbling 250-lb. Miller was
arrested after having an affair with a Soviet agent and giving
her a handbook on U.S. counterintelligence techniques, the FBI
was shocked. It shouldn't have been. On a $50,000 salary,
Miller was attempting to support a wife, eight children, a Los
Angeles bungalow and a San Diego County farm.
</p>
<p> Miller's first trial ended with a hung jury, and the second
was reversed. In the third, Judge Robert Takasugi convicted
Miller of espionage. "Mr. Miller was totally out of control,"
said Takasugi. "I wonder why the agency allowed him to serve
when it knew of his susceptible qualities."
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</body></article>
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