World IN BRIEF : SOVIET UNION : CIA Defector Tells of Travels to West
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Edward Lee Howard, the first CIA agent to defect to the Soviet Union, says he has traveled widely in the West since he fled the United States five years ago. “I don’t think any secret service can deal with multiple names, multiple passports,” he said in an interview from Moscow. Howard said he has dodged Western intelligence services while traveling in France, Canada and Mexico.
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