Vivian Psachos; Exposed a Spy at Cia

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WASHINGTON - Vivian E. Psachos, a senior research analyst with the Central Intelligence Agency who helped expose a former analyst as a Soviet spy, died of cancer Aug. 25 at her Falls Church, Va., home. She was 73.

Ms. Psachos interviewed William Kampiles, a former low-level CIA watch officer, after he revealed to a friend in the agency that he had pilfered 13 copies of a top-secret manual for the state-of-the- art KH-11 spy satellite and sold them to the Soviet Union for $3,000.

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Vivian Psachos; Exposed a Spy at Cia

According to her testimony in Kampiles' 1978 espionage trial, Ms. Psac...

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