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<text id=92TT1941>
<title>
Aug. 31, 1992: Gotcha!
</title>
<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
Aug. 31, 1992 Woody Allen: Cries and Whispers
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
THE WEEK, Page 15
NATION
Gotcha!
</hdr><body>
<p>The CIA's most embarrassing turncoat is nabbed in Stockholm
</p>
<p> A daring escape from an FBI surveillance team one sticky New
Mexico night in 1985 demonstrated Edward Lee Howard's mastery of
the spy trade he learned at the Central Intelligence Agency.
With his wife at the wheel, Howard propped up a dummy in the
passenger seat and, on a tight turn, rolled out onto the
roadway. Months later he surfaced in Moscow, the only
full-fledged CIA operator to defect during the cold war. The
fugitive double agent eventually showed up in Stockholm and last
week was arrested by Swedish authorities.
</p>
<p> The CIA erred grievously by ignoring Howard's drug and
alcohol abuse when it picked him to spy in Moscow, the most
sensitive of cold war assignments. In a major violation of
procedures designed to compartmentalize any one officer's
knowledge, Howard was allowed to learn of practically all the
major intelligence operations in the Soviet capital. Agency
insiders say several CIA agents were caught and executed and
that Howard "virtually wiped out the Moscow station." Despite
the absence of an extradition treaty for spying, the Justice
Department says it is "determined" to bring Howard to trial in
the U.S.
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