By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ex-DEA agent Richard Horn may have lost his privacy, but he’s a lot richer as a result.
The U.S. government has agreed to pay him $3 million to settle a lawsuit in Washington in which Horn alleged that the CIA and a U.S. diplomat spied on him and illegally wiretapped his conversations while he worked at the U.S. Embassy in Burma more than ten years ago, Politico reported.
Politico reported that Horn’s lawsuit alleged that the CIA officer and the diplomant “conspired to place a listening device in a coffee table at Horn’s residence and that the pair then relayed information they obtained to Washington.”
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