Traitor escaped with a clever dummy run

ERINGER never did get the CIA double agent he was sent to Moscow to bring back to America.

Suspected traitor Edward Lee Howard had fled the US in 1985 after eluding watching FBI men.

He hid a dummy in his car as he took wife Mary out to dinner in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Mary drove home with the dummy in the front and Howard quietly rolled out the back as she turned a corner.

In the house, a tape of his voice made it sound like he was still there. But he had fled abroad and turned up at the Soviet embassy in Helsinki.

In 2002 he was found dead of a broken neck, officially after falling down basement stairs drunk at his country home. But it had no basement.