Sasha was an alleged Soviet mole

Mole (espionage)

A mole is a spy who works for an enemy nation, but whose loyalty ostensibly lies with his own nation's government. In some usage, a mole differs from a defector in that a mole is a spy before gaining access to classified information, while a defector becomes a spy only after gaining access...

 in the Central Intelligence Agency

Central Intelligence Agency

The Central Intelligence Agency is a civilian intelligence agency of the United States government. It is an executive agency and reports directly to the Director of National Intelligence, responsible for providing national security intelligence assessment to senior United States policymakers...

 during the Cold War

Cold War

The Cold War was the continuing state from roughly 1946 to 1991 of political conflict, military tension, proxy wars, and economic competition between the Communist World—primarily the Soviet Union and its satellite states and allies—and the powers of the Western world, primarily the United States...

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Reparations

Under Public Law 96-450, or the "Mole Relief Act", C.I.A. employees accused of being Sasha and their careers subsequently ruined were allowed to receive government compensation.

List of Accused C.I.A. Agents

This is a partial list of C.I.A. employees accused of being Sasha. All were later cleared.

• Paul Garbler
• Serge Karlow
  Serge Karlow
  Serge "Peter" Karlow was born circa 1921 in New York, NY and died November 3, 2005 in Montclair, NJHe was a CIA Technical Officer from 1947-1963 who was falsely accused of treason and forced to resign. The allegations against Karlow were made by KGB defector Anatoliy Golitsyn who described a CIA...
  
  
• Richard Kovich

In popular culture

• In Robert Littell
  Robert Littell
  Robert Littell may refer to:* Robert Littell , New Jersey politician* Robert Littell , American writer...
  
  's novel The Company
  The Company (novel)
  The Company: A Novel of the CIA is a work of fiction written by American novelist Robert Littell and published by Penguin Press in 2002. The plot interweaves the professional lives of both historical and fictional characters in the field of international espionage between June 1950 and August...
  
  , the alleged existence of Sasha is an important plot point.

External links

• "Of Moles and Molehunters" by Cleveland Cram
  Cleveland Cram
  Cleveland C. Cram was a station chief and historian for the United States Central Intelligence Agency ....
  
  , Center for the Study of Intelligence, October 1993.
• "C.I.A. Dug for Moles but Buried the Loyal" by David Johnston, New York Times, March 8, 1992.