William Kampiles

William Peter Kampiles (born 1955) was a Central Intelligence Agency employee during the Cold War.

Biography

Bored with his low-ranking status as a CIA clerk, he stole a top-secret KH-11 spy satellite manual from his employers in 1977. Afterwards, he resigned from his job, flew to Greece, and sold the manual to the Soviet embassy in Athens in return for $3,000. Kampiles subsequently returned to the United States and informed his former CIA bosses of what he had done, in the mistaken belief that he would be recruited as a double agent; instead, he was charged with espionage by the US Government, put on trial in 1978, and convicted. He was originally sentenced on November 17, 1978, to 40 years imprisonment; however, his prison sentence was later reduced to 19 years, and he was released on 16 December 1996, after serving 18 years as Federal Prison inmate "04028-164".^[1][2]

See also

• Samuel Loring Morison - An intelligence analyst who provided KH-11 photographs to the Jane's Fighting Ships publication and was convicted of espionage.
• James Hall III – An Army warrant officer and intelligence analyst in Germany who sold eavesdropping and code secrets to East Germany and the Soviet Union from 1983 to 1988.
• George Trofimoff – a then retired Army Reserve colonel, who was charged in June 2000 with spying for the KGB and the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (or SVR) for over 25 years.
• John Anthony Walker – An American communications specialist who was convicted of spying
• Aldrich Ames - an ex-CIA agent convicted of spying for Russia
• Noshir Gowadia - an ex-employee of Northrop who sold classified B-2 stealth technology to China
• Robert Hanssen an ex-FBI agent who spied for the Soviet Union for over 15 years

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