(ESTIMATED PUB DATE) "AKTION" RE GOLENIEWSKI LETTERS OF 1958

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 00144100
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: U
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• Document Creation Date: July 13, 2023
• Document Release Date: August 26, 2022
• Case Number: F-2020-00942
• Publication Date: January 1, 1959

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3. "Aktion": One of the firt-i.eports Goleniewski
sent through his letters .011958 concerned a pro-
posed KGB propaganda offellsive against the Western
Powers in the German Fedet,a1 Republic labvled by
him "Aktion". The program.Originated.with the
KGB Second Chi.ef Directorate and that'Directorate's
Chief, Gribanov, :and was tO!,be WleMented by the
SatetlitesPrvices. The:bbJective of the propaganda
assault was to support and strengthen the Soviet
contention that West Berlin was an outpost of the
Western intelligence services .and the West German
service, the BND, was a tool of the Western Powers.
After the KGB explained its plan, it became obvious
that the Satellites would be sacrificing their
agents in West Berlin and the Federal Republic to.
achievc.,tbe4KGB goal. Thq,proposa4,did not meet
wilrenthusiieni 'Arid the-plan, as originally
presented, was dropped but the BND agents who had
been identified in West and East Berlin and in the
GDR were exposed. The planning for "Aktiorr occurred
during the months of April, May, June and July 1959
and was in preparation for the Geneva Conference
which the Soviets would attend. According to
Goleniewski, the failure-of the plan was blamed
on �9),,e4KqEdvisors to th44P4-tinent Satellite
-seilluCes and' " there were Khrushchevian fireworks
aimed at the KGB in general.
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