Edward Lee Howard
Howard was hired by the CIA in 1980 and was later joined by his wife, Mary, where they were both trained in intelligence and counter-intelligence methods. Shortly after the end of their training, and before going on their first assignment, a routine polygraph test indicated that he had lied about past drug use. He was fired by the CIA in 1983 shortly before he was to report to the CIA’s station at the American embassy in Moscow.
I remember seeing these wanted posters in the local post office back in the mid-80s. It didn’t say who he was, but if you read the poster you got a pretty good idea. I can remember telling my wife, “ This guy has got to be a spook.”
Howard died on July 12, 2002, at his Russian dacha, reportedly from a broken neck after a fall in his home. Too bad.
