ALLEGATION BY DR. CONSTANTINE D. J. GENERALES (W/ATTACHMENTS)

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 01435019
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
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• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2022
• Document Release Date: August 7, 2017
• Case Number: F-2007-00094
• Publication Date: January 14, 1975

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.1 Doctor Says C.I.A. .Asked
That He.Spy on.Russians
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- . By ROBERT HANLEY : �
A � IvIinhattan physician,an's knowledge, the doctor
known for his research- -andk-aid. "I wanted to be a little
� teaching in space medicine as-Ismarte.r. than she was," he
� serted yesterday that the Cen-Isaid,. -
tral Intelligence Agency tried tot Her next 'attempt to reach
get him to spy on Russian scl-;the doctor was a telephone in
entists-at an-interha.tional con-Iquiry on Oct. 2, 1972, about
ferenca � in apace medicine ja ;whether he had attended the
Miami in May, 1972.. .� � 'meeting. in Nice. She spoke
The doctor, Constantine D. Ifonly with the doctor's secre-
Generales, said that he did not;tary; .
'reject the oveiture, but thatt But in an Oct: /I letter writ-
because of it, he�failed to. goltert � � to her "after some
either to the Miami meeting orithoughte, Dr. Generates called
� to a similar one in Nice, France, he spying overture "highly dis-
. in October, 1972, also attendeditasteful" and -asked that she �
by Russian experts in spaceistop contacting him. - -
medicine I, On Feb. 5, 1973, four months
� rafter Dr. Generates wrote the!
.T.lee overtures,. Dr.
General es � the doctor's office was!
said in an interview, wereibroken into. Stolen was a small'
m.ade by.:a . blonde- woman inIportable .television set, a ring'
sher twenfieS"WhO showed him'of office keys and the portable
a *C.I.A. identity- card and leftlape 'recorder that still con-
a pusiness card identifying her tained the tape 'of the May�.1
� as:�,"Sharyn L. W. Beers, P. 0. meeting.
� Box .1294'; .Grand -Central Sta.! : A floor around �a -cabinet con-
tiort" . taming dozens of folders of
Her � first -contact,- -Dr. Gen- Dr. Generales's - research. and
crates said, was in brief tele- copies of his lectures. was lit-
phone � calls to his office-on tered: with matches, he said,
April 20 and 24. She did' not leading him to believe that the
identify herself as an agent, files had been read. -
.� bit said "she wanted to talk The burglary, he said, was
about something very ,per- "most likely" made by Govern-.-
' sonal." "She made some innu- merit agents.... "Bu.t.�I. have no
end� about space.. rne..dicine,"iproof Chat." '
Generales � l� Last 7Sept.. 10,.Dr. Generalesi
She sva � given -aneappointisaid; he wrote to President'
. , ment for May 1 :at the � physi- Ford, seekInge an investigation
cian's office At 8 'West 72d into the "efforts of the C.I.A.
Street.. During': a 30-minute to engage me in despicable es- .;
� meeting then, she 'offered her pionage-activities."-,The White
� � credentials. .� � ..e� House-has not�replied, he said
. 'She said, 'There's going 'to
.a lot of ,Russians down
th'ere' (Miami),.- Dr.- Generales-
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scud. "And she wanted me to.:�
take the-A-Lout for cocktails and
find out as much as possible
about what they -do. and whet
th?.e." think.
t:But I told her I wasn't
ctg.:e sure whether I v.-as go-
ink there or not. I:didn't want
to.get involved."
. The .� conversation . was. �re-
�,. corded, .but. without the wom��
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14 January 1975
SUBJECT: Allegation by Dr. Constantine D. J. Generales
Dr. Generales, a medical doctor in private practice
in New York City who had been involved in some of the -
earliest aeromedicil experiments, claimed in stories
carried in severaliNew York newspapers on 13 January that,
following his refusal to spy on fellow scientists at a
conference in 1972,-his New York office was broken into on
5 February 1973 and a tape recorder, some tapes and a tele-
vision set were stolen. While without proof, Dr. Generales
told reporters of his assumption that CIA was responsible for
the burglary; he claimed that he had recorded, on ()fled
the tapes stolen, a meeting in his office with a CIA
representative. He had written the President, General
Haig and several members of Congress about the matter, and
had subsequently received a visit from two FBI agents,
but no satisfaction as to his suspicions.
confirmed that
contact&d. Dr. .Generales in the
spring of972t�Emi�He grant e a ointment
without indicating any reservations and lvisited.
him on 1 May 1972 to ask his cooperation i ing to
foreign intelligence requirements on Soviets attending an
aerospace medical conference to be held in Bal Harbour,
Florida. While Dr. Generales did not indicate great
interest in meeting the requirements and was uncertain
as to whether he would attend.th_p_conference, he did not
express any antagonism and the meeting ended cordially.
followed up on 2 October 1972 by telephone;
the doctor was out and his secretary did not reply to a
question as to whether or not he had attended the
conference. A letter dated 11 October 1972 from Dr.
Generales to stated that her inquiry on 2 October
and her previous request for reporting on Soviet representatives
were "highly distasteful" and asked that no further contact
.be made with him. This request has been honored.
The allegation that the Agency broke into Dr.
Generales' office is of course without any foundation.
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