AMERICAN TRAITORS Espionage Against the United States by American Citizens 1947-2001

Download or read book AMERICAN TRAITORS Espionage Against the United States by American Citizens 1947-2001 written by R. E. D. Dot RED DOT PUBLICATIONS and published by . This book was released on 2017-11-12 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unclassified study, like its predecessor in 1992, deals with individuals whose names and cases surfaced in open source materials. It is impossible to know how many more spies have been identified but whose cases remain classified, how many were identified but not prosecuted (often to prevent the release of information in open court), how many spied in the past and were not identified, or how many are spying at present and remain unidentified. Unfortunately for the student of espionage, government records include more cases of espionage than are described here, but access to these is classified and restricted to the relatively small, cleared community. This database represents the information that is publicly available; it is an open source subset of the larger universe of all espionage committed by American citizens.Permanent and temporary employees, vendors, contractors, suppliers, ex-employees, and other types of "insiders" are among those who are most capable of exploiting organizational assets at greatest expense to U.S. interests. Due to their knowledge of the public agencies and private companies that employ them, their familiarity with computer systems that contain classified and proprietary information, and their awareness of the value of protected information in the global market, insiders constitute a significant area of vulnerability for national security.