Ronald Pelton

Why bother even having secrets, one wonders.

And actually, he, uh, the, the only one he didn't sell out really was Ivy Bells when that was a separate spy in the NSA, uh, Ronald Pelton sold Ivy Bells out.

The NSA took command of the tapes that were recovered by Halibut from Halibut's tap, and then wouldn't let J- uh, James Bradley listen to them, the guy who'd come up with the program.

Because it was too important.

Well, I'll tell you what the fuck happened.

44-year-old veteran of the N- N- NSA who was fluent in Russian, uh, his name was, um, Ronald Pelton.

Uh, at the time he was $65,000 in debt, which was, was $254,000 in today's money, and he had filed for personal bankruptcy just three months before he resigned.

With only a few hundred dollars in his bank pocket, in, in his pocket, uh, Pelton walked into the Soviet Em- into the Soviet Embassy in Washington, DC, and was like, "Hey, I got something for y'all."

Yeah, right

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[laughs] So, so Ronald Pelton gets arrested, and he gets life in prison.

But, but if he, like, if he, like, if he had never told them about that shit, like how-