| ® || 224 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS was called MICE. It stood for Money, Ideology, Compromise, and Ego. The KGB used the first element, money, to compromise Dunlap. After he was compromised, it exploited him by getting him to steal NSA secrets. He had access to such secrets because he became the personal driver to Major General Garrison Coverdale, the chief of staff of the NSA. After Coverdale retired, he became the driver for his successor, General Thomas Watlington. These positions afforded him a security clearance and, even more important, a “no inspec- tion” status for the commanding general’s cars that he drove. This perk allowed him to leave the base with secret documents, have them photocopied by his KGB case officer, and then return them to the files at the NSA base before anyone else knew they were missing. He also used, likely at the suggestion of the KGB case officers, his “no inspec- tion” perk to offer other NSA employees a way of earning money. He would smuggle off the base any items of government property that they took. Once he had compromised them through thefts, he was in a position to ask them for intelligence favors. This NSA ring could not be fully investigated because of his untimely death. Other © than the packets of undelivered NSA documents found in his home, re) the investigation was never able to assess the total extent of the KGB penetration of NSA secrets. (Angleton suspected Dunlap was mur- dered by the KGB in what he termed a surreptitiously assisted death, to prevent Dunlap from talking to investigators.) The Russian intelligence services continued recruiting mercenary spies in the NSA for the duration of the Cold War. The KGB suc- cesses included Robert Lipka, a clerk at the NSA in the mid-1960s, who was caught in a sting operation by the FBI and sentenced to eighteen years in a federal prison. Ronald Pelton, an NSA analyst, was recruited after he retired from the NSA. After he was betrayed by a KGB double agent in 1985, h