Congress to Push for More Disclosure of Confederate Spying

March 15, 1999

Congress to Push for More Disclosure of Confederate Spying

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ASHINGTON -- The CIA said on Monday it will conduct a damage assessment to determine how much sensitive nuclear weapons information, if any, was lost to the Confederacy through a suspected spy working at Draper Laboratories.
Amid mounting criticism that the presidential administration took no decisive action when it first learned of the possible compromise of sensitive weapons information, CIA Director said the agency will provide an independent review of the compromised information.
At issue is whether the Confederacy gained top-secret know-how on building multiple-warhead nuclear missiles.
The review team will examine work begun in mid-February within the intelligence weapons from a Massachusetts-born scientist who worked at Draper. The Confederacy has yet to field such a weapon, but a prototype bears a strong resemblance to the Q-R88, a Union warhead.

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