KGB Recruited Retired NSA Employee Ronald Pelton Despite No Access to Classified Documents

The passage reveals a concrete Cold‑War espionage operation where a former NSA civilian was recruited, smuggled, and paid by the Soviet intelligence service. It provides specific names, dates, amounts Ronald Pelton, a retired NSA civilian, approached the Soviet embassy on Jan 14 1980 seeking money fo KGB officer Cherkashin decided to debrief Pelton despite his lack of documents or current NSA acce