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Ronald Pelton
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The program yielded invaluable intelligence on Soviet naval operations until NSA analyst Ronald Pelton sold details to the KGB for $35,000, leading to its discovery and his 1986 conviction for espionage. FBI surveillance and subsequent interrogation led to Pelton's confession and arrest in November 1985.
··1968 — 2015·Person
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Judge Albert V. Bryan Jr.
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