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This document is page 262 from the book 'How America Lost Its Secrets,' stamped by the House Oversight Committee. It details an interview with former KGB officer Cherkashin regarding the 1980 recruitment of former NSA employee Ronald Pelton, describing how Pelton was smuggled out of the Soviet embassy in Washington D.C. to avoid FBI surveillance. The text outlines the payment of $5,000 to Pelton and his subsequent transfer to Vienna to be debriefed by expert Anatoly Slavnov.