Former NSA employee Ronald Pelton allegedly aided a joint NSA‑CIA‑Navy cable‑tap operation and received $30,000 from the KGB

Former NSA employee Ronald Pelton allegedly aided a joint NSA‑CIA‑Navy cable‑tap operation and received $30,000 from the KGB The passage provides a concrete claim that a former NSA contractor (Ronald Pelton) participated in a covert undersea cable‑tap operation with U.S. agencies and was paid by the KGB, linking intelligence services of two superpowers and suggesting a financial flow. It names specific individuals, agencies, dates, and amounts, offering actionable leads for verification, but the details are uncorroborated and the overall claim is not novel enough to be a blockbuster. Key insights: Pelton debriefed for 15 days about "Project A," a joint NSA‑CIA‑Navy operation tapping Soviet undersea cables in the Sea of Okhotsk.; Pelton allegedly received $30,000 from the KGB for his cooperation.; The operation supposedly allowed the KGB to feed false information to the NSA via the compromised tap.