The World - News from April 20, 1987
A senior KGB official acknowledged that Western intelligence agencies, including the CIA, have recruited Soviet citizens to disclose valuable state secrets. Gennady Y. Ageyev, deputy chairman of the Soviet intelligence and security agency, said in an interview with the trade union newspaper Trud that the CIA obtained the information by bribing high-level Soviet officials. Ageyev also said that Western intelligence services have bugged several Soviet scientific institutions and communications networks, but he did not give any specifics. It was a rare Soviet acknowledgement that Western intelligence agencies have penetrated Kremlin secrecy.
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