The strange saga of espionage crossovers that has kept heads spinning in intelligence communities East and West took yet another turn last week. In this round, Washington was the victim. U.S. officials acknowledged that an ex-CIA officer had been fingered as a Soviet spy by Vitaly Yurchenko, a top- ranking official of the KGB, Moscow's intelligence organization, who defected to the West in July. The accused agent was identified as Edward Lee Howard, 33, who worked for the CIA as recently as June 1983, evidently in the agency's clandestine service. As if that were not damaging enough, officials also disclosed that...
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