- Sharon Scranage
Sharon Scranage is a former CIA employee who was jailed for revealing the identities of CIA agents.
Scranage, who worked in
Ghana in the role of Operations Support Assistant, passed classified information to her boyfriend,Michael Soussoudis . Soussoudis, a Ghanaian citizen with permanent residence in theUnited States , was a Ghanaian intelligence officer, and passed the information to intelligence chiefKojo Tsikata . Tsikata is alleged to have shared the information with several countries in theSoviet bloc .Scranage is said to have come under suspicion when, upon her return to the United States in
1985 , she failed a routinepolygraph test. After an investigation, Scranage cooperated with the authorities, and assisted in the arrest of Soussoudis. Soussoudis was later exchanged for a number of Ghanaian CIA agents who had been arrested following their exposure by Scranage.Scranage was charged with espionage and with breaking the
Intelligence Identities Protection Act . She pleaded guilty to three of the eighteen charges against her, with the others being dropped. She was sentenced to five years in prison, later reduced to two years. To date, she remains the only person convicted of breaking the Intelligence Identities Protection Act, which was introduced in1982 . [ [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1083872,00.html?iid=chix-sphere "What Can You Say About A Spy?",Time Magazine , by Josh Tyrangiel, 7/25/05] ]References
External links
* [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/portal/main.jhtml?xml=/portal/2007/06/07/nosplit/ftcia107.xml "The spies who loved ... and lost their jobs", by Toby Harden, 7/23/07,
The Daily Telegraph ]
* [http://www.ghanaweb.net/GhanaHomePage/crime/artikel.php?ID=47610 "Soussoudis & CIA's Nightmare In Ghana", HomePage Ghana news article, 12/1/03]
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