JEANNE MESERVE, CNN ANCHOR: A retired Army Reserve colonel has been arrested and charged with passing military secrets to the Soviet Union during the Cold War. CNN national correspondent Bob Franken joins us now with details -- Bob.</s>BOB FRANKEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: And Jeanne, George Trofimoff becomes the highest U.S. military -- ranking military official ever arrested for espionage, charged with over a 25-year period providing reams of classified material to the Soviet Union. He was arrested near Tampa, Florida, charged with espionage for over this period while he was in Nuremberg, Germany, turning over a large number of classified documents and photographs to KGB agents, meeting them throughout Europe. He was paid, we were told by officials, $250,000 at least, and they said there was much more.</s>FRANK GALLAGHER, FBI: We're aware of the fact that he received money. We're also aware of the fact that he received an award from the KGB, where he received this Red Banner, which is one of their highest awards that they give out. So they did pay him in ways other then strictly money.</s>FRANKEN: This was the story of Cold War intrigue. He was recruited, Trofimoff was, by a boyhood friend who was a Russian Orthodox priest, in fact ended up becoming the archbishop of Vienna. Recruited, and then meeting several times over the years with KGB agents in a variety of European cities, turning over documents that had to do with the United States knowledge, NATO knowledge of the activities of the Soviet Union and national security and defense -- vital information, the officials said -- Jeanne.</s>MESERVE: Bob Franken, thank you very much.
Army Reserve Colonel Arrested on Espionage Charges