NOVAKula rises again: Geoffrey KEMP, ass't NSC under RAYGUN & Nixon Center, one of his sources

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Meet the Man the State Department Suspected of Leaking Secrets to Robert Novak

Geoffrey Kemp was once Reagan's assistant for national security affairs and a National Security Council employee. Turns out he was also the FBI and State Department's prime suspect for leaking classified material to newspaper duo Robert Novak and Rowland Evans.

So what happened to Kemp in the end? According to the files, FBI officials instructed agents to inspect phone records and appointment calendars as well as conduct polygraph tests on NSC employees who had access to the classified telegram. The reports show agents interviewed Kemp and he admitted to meeting frequently with Evans, but denied any knowledge of the leak. He also consented to a polygraph and permitted agents to examine his calendar, although nothing in the files suggest agents ever actually conducted the lie detector test. And despite whatever suspicions the State Department had, the FBI closed its investigation a year later after "no logical suspect(s) had been developed."

At the time of the investigation, Kemp worked as the NSC's senior director for Near East and South Asian affairs. The FBI inquiry didn't damage his career prospects. In 1983, he was promoted to serve as a Reagan's special assistant for national security affairs where he worked under National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane during the Iran-Contra affair before departing the White House in 1985. These days, Kemp is the director of strategic programs at the Nixon Center, a public policy think tank founded by Richard Nixon in 1994.

Novak, meanwhile, continued to make a name for himself publishing classified intelligence. The FBI file reveals he and Evans drew the FBI's attention again when they published details of a classified CIA/Department of Defense report in 1987. Most famously, Novak incurred the wrath of the FBI when outed Valerie Plame as a CIA operative in 2003, sparking a media firestorm in the process.



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