In the U.S. District Court at Alexandria, Va. last week, Joseph Sydney Petersen Jr., 40, a gangling, cross-eyed former research analyst in the National Security Agency, the Government's topmost secret hive of codebreakers and message-interceptors, pleaded guilty to espionage.
Two months ago, Petersen's lawyer leaked the information that his client, no Communist, was accused of spying for The Netherlands. The Dutch Embassy in Washington promptly admitted receiving secret intelligence from Petersen, but the Dutch said that they assumed Petersen's superiors knew he was passing on the information. This was an odd...
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