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Ronald William Pelton (November 18, 1941 – September 6, 2022) was a National Security Agency (NSA) intelligence analyst who was convicted in 1986 of spying for and selling secrets to the Soviet Union. One such top secret operation he compromised was Operation Ivy Bells . Pelton was born in Benton Harbor, Michigan, and graduated in 1960 in the ...
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Sep 17, 2022 · Ronald William Pelton was born in Benton Harbor, Mich., on Nov. 18, 1941. He was raised by his father, a manager in a Whirlpool electronics department and a TV repairman, and his stepmother, who ...
- Emily Langer
Sep 12, 2022 · Ronald William Pelton was 80. Pelton was an NSA intelligence communications specialist who, in November 1985, was arrested for selling government secrets to the Soviet Union. He spent about three ...
- Erum Salam
Sep 17, 2022 · The former NSA analyst, who was convicted in 1986 of betraying U.S. intelligence to the Russians, died of cancer at a nursing home in Maryland. He was 80 and had a long and varied career in the Air Force, the intelligence agency and the music industry.
Nov 24, 2015 · Ronald Pelton, a former National Security Agency employee who sold defence and communication secrets to the Soviets in the 1980s, is to be released from federal custody 30 years after his arrest. He was sentenced to three life terms in 1986 for betraying a "special position of trust" and endangering U.S. security. He was arrested in 1985 and worked for the NSA for 14 years before leaving in 1979.
Sep 11, 2022 · The Death of Ronald W. Pelton. More than seven years ago, I started researching the story of Ronald William Pelton, a NSA cryptanalyst who, after leaving the agency in 1979, fell into destitution, sold government secrets to the Soviets, was arrested, and served 30 years in prison. Although he fell into obscurity, many consider him the worst ...
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Nov 25, 2015 · The sentence for Cold war-era spy Ronald Pelton, 74, ended on Tuesday. He had been placed on home confinement several months ago to serve out the final stretch of his sentence and was released on ...
