Editing Defense Intelligence Agency (section)

== Notable cases of espionage ==
DIA is one of a few U.S. federal organizations, such as the [[CIA]] and [[FBI]], that rely on [[Human intelligence (intelligence collection)|human espionage]] to collect information. For this reason, the agency has been involved in numerous espionage events over the course of decades.

=== Spying for DIA ===
* [[Victor Kaliadin]] ({{langx|ru|Виктор Калядин}}) – a CEO of a Russian company "Elers Electron", who in 2001 was sentenced to 14 years in prison for selling a ring run by a DIA agent technical information on [[Arena (countermeasure)|Arena]], the Russian [[active protection system]] for tanks. He died of his fourth heart attack in 2004.<ref>[http://lenta.ru/russia/2004/09/17/kalyadin/ Осужденный за шпионаж Виктор Калядин скончался в липецкой больнице] [[Lenta.ru]], Published:September 17, 2004. Last Retrieved:April 25, 2013.</ref>

[[File:Igor Sutyagin.jpg|thumb|Igor Sutyagin]]
* [[Igor Sutyagin]] – Russian arms control and nuclear weapons specialist convicted in 2004 of spying for DIA. Released in 2010 in exchange for Russian spies arrested in the U.S. during the break-up of the [[Illegals Program]]. Denies any involvement in spying.
* [[Edmond Pope]] – A retired intelligence officer-turned-"businessman", sentenced by a Russian court in 2000 to 20 years for buying up and smuggling classified military equipment out of the country as scrap metal.<ref>Valeri Falunin (General, FSB). [http://www.fsb.ru/fsb/smi/interview/single.htm!_print%3Dtrue&id%3D10342721@fsbSmi.html "Secret Operations of the Military Counterintelligence"] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20130826114359/http://www.fsb.ru/fsb/smi/interview/single.htm!_print%3Dtrue&id%3D10342721@fsbSmi.html |date=August 26, 2013 }}. ({{langx|ru|Тайные операции военной контрразведки}}), [[Federal Security Service]] (originally published by [[Moskovskij Komsomolets]]), December 19, 2001</ref> He was soon pardoned by newly elected [[Vladimir Putin]] but continues to assert that the Russian authorities used him as a scapegoat for their broken system.<ref>[[Larry King]] [http://archives.cnn.com/2001/COMMUNITY/11/05/pope/index.html Edmond Pope:Arrested and imprisoned for espionage in Russia] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071216090315/http://archives.cnn.com/2001/COMMUNITY/11/05/pope/index.html |date=December 16, 2007 }} [[CNN]], November 5, 2001</ref> In the same interview with [[Larry King]], however, he spoke of a plot by unspecified people in the U.S., as part of which Pope was being slowly poisoned in the [[Lefortovo Prison]], with the hopes that he would eventually have to be transferred to a hospital, abducted on his way and smuggled out of the country; he claims that his representatives stopped the plot.
* Jerzy Strawa – a Polish engineer and an employee of the Ministry of Foreign Trade executed in 1968 at [[Mokotów Prison]] for passing industrial and defense information to DIA agents while on official trips in [[Austria]] and [[West Germany]].<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.spiegel.de/politik/feier-fuer-feinde-a-5428b76e-0002-0001-0000-000045465304|title=Feier für Feinde|magazine=[[Der Spiegel]]|date =January 21, 1968|accessdate=August 29, 2023|language=German|edition=4/1968}}</ref>
* [[Natan Sharansky]] – a former high ranking Israeli politician and Soviet dissident who, during his life in Russia, was sentenced to 13 years of prison with hard labor for spying for DIA. The prosecution alleged that he gave a DIA agent in journalist's disguise—Robert Toth—a list of people who had access to military and other secrets.<ref>Natan Sharansky. ''Fear No Evil''. PublicAffairs, November 27, 1998, p.163</ref> Sharansky was released in 1986 following a spy exchange that took place on the [[Glienicke Bridge]] between the USSR and the Western allies. In 2006, he was awarded the [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]].
* Charles Dennis McKee – a DIA officer who, along with [[CIA]]'s [[Matthew Gannon]], died as a result of the [[Pan Am Flight 103]] bombing.<ref>''Lockerbie: The Inside Story and the Lessons.'' [[Greenwood Publishing Group]], 2001, p.144</ref> The incident produced [[Pan Am Flight 103 conspiracy theories#CIA drug smuggling|numerous conspiracy theories]] that the flight was bombed because the officers were aware of illicit U.S. intelligence drug activities or that the case was related to them trying to secure the release of American hostages in [[Lebanon]]. He is notably absent from DIA's memorial wall (below)

=== Spying against DIA ===

[[File:Mugshot of Defense Intelligence Agency mole Ana Montes.jpg|thumb|right|Ana Montes]]
* [[Ana Belén Montes]] – a senior DIA analyst arrested in 2001 for spying for the [[Intelligence Directorate|G2]] of [[Cuba]] and sentenced to 25 years in prison. Prosecutors alleged that she started spying in the mid-1980s, around the same time when [[CIA]]'s [[Aldrich Ames]] started his interaction with the [[KGB]].
* [[Ronald Montaperto]] – a senior DIA intelligence analyst who pleaded guilty in 2006 for giving classified information to China's [[Ministry of State Security (China)|MSS]]. Montaperto claimed that he was tricked and served only three months in jail due to letters of support from other pro-China intelligence analysts, pejoratively known as the "Red Team", who "harshly [criticize] anyone who raises questions about the threat posed by Beijing's communist regime."<ref>[http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2006/jun/23/20060623-120347-7268r/?page=all "Ex-DIA analyst admits passing secrets to China"], ''The Washington Times'', June 23, 2006. Retrieved: October 1, 2013.</ref>{{Better source needed|reason=No other mainstream sources seem to corroborate this|date=July 2020}} One of such supporters, Lonnie Henley, was initially reprimanded by the [[ODNI]] for his support of Montaperto but was later promoted to acting national intelligence officer for East Asia.<ref>[http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2007/feb/23/20070223-124358-7200r/ "Inside the Ring: Spy Release'] ''The Washington Times'', Published: February 23, 2007. Retrieved: April 28, 2013.</ref>{{Better source needed|reason=No other mainstream sources seem to corroborate this|date=July 2020}}
* [[Waldo H. Dubberstein]] – a senior DIA intelligence officer for the Middle East and an associate of CIA arms smuggler [[Edwin P. Wilson]] who was indicted in 1983 for selling DIA secrets to [[History of Libya under Muammar Gaddafi#Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (1977–2011)|Libya]]. The day after being charged, he was found dead in what was ruled a suicide.<ref>"The Last Battle of an Old War Horse". ''The Washington Post'', May 8, 1983</ref>
* [[Henry Kyle Frese]], former counterterrorism analyst for the DIA. He held "[[Top Secret]]" (TS) [[security clearance|clearance]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Savannah Behrmann |title=Intelligence employee pleads guilty to leaking classified info to journalists |url=https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/02/20/henry-kyle-frese-pleads-guilty-leaking-information-journalists/4824552002/ |accessdate=6 September 2020 |work=USA Today |date=20 February 2020 |quote=Frese, 31, was employed as a counterterrorism analyst for the Defense Intelligence Agency from February 2018 to October 2019, and held a top-secret clearance.}}</ref> On February 20, 2020, Frese pleaded guilty to the willful transmission of Top Secret national defense information. He was sentenced on June 18, 2020, to two and a half years in prison after pleading guilty.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.foxnews.com/us/former-dia-employee-pleads-guilty-leaking-classified-information|title=Ex-DIA employee pleads guilty to leaking top-secret info to reporters|first=Bradford|last=Betz|date=February 20, 2020|website=Fox News}}</ref><ref name="GuitlyPlea">{{ cite news |title=Former DIA Employee Pleads Guilty to Leaking Classified National Defense Information to Journalists |date=February 20, 2020 | website=Department of Justice |url=https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-dia-employee-pleads-guilty-leaking-classified-national-defense-information-journalists |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200221033323/https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-dia-employee-pleads-guilty-leaking-classified-national-defense-information-journalists |archive-date=February 21, 2020 | url-status=live }}</ref>