U.S. IS A PARADISE FOR ESPIONAGE RINGS; RUSSIAN AGENTS ARE MANY AND DANGEROUS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70-00058R000300020039-4
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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 1, 2000
• Sequence Number: 39
• Publication Date: June 1, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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PHILADELPHIA, PA.
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Russian Agents Are -Many and Dangerous
By;HARRY FERGUSON
Washington, June 1 - The
Federal. Bureau of Investiga-
tion has infiltrated the Commu-
fist Party in the United States
so thoroughly that there was as
much truth as there was humor
in a recent cartoon on the sub
'iect.
It depicted a leader of a Com-
with this remark:, "Comrades;
rand members of the FBI.'
A current ioke around Wash.I
merely means that the Russians lence; for secret intervention in
are now using professional the affairs of other nations. It
agents rather than members of is an aggressive arm of Soviet
the U. S. , Communist Party, ambitions in the cold war. If the
There are many of thpm and Soviets send.astronauts to the
they are highly dangerous. moon; I'axpect a KGB officer
America is a paradise for for- will accompany them."
eign agents because -we live in Dulles says every Russian'or-
an open society. Information is ganization outside the Soviet
freely available here-informa- Union is loaded with KGB
tion that would require years of agents -- embassies, legations,
hard digging . to acquire any trade missions, technical advis-
place beyond the Iroi'i and Barn- ers and even -the United Nations
boo Curtains. ' .. delegation. In some embassies
;Party is largely supported by
dues paid by FBI agents, posing
R
ns
eds. -
But that floes not mean Moc-
About three years ago Rus-
sian agents in this country were
authorized to spend as'murli as
850:000 to get blue prints of
n port facilities
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ey man who knows what he i
merely went to the Government
is big, tough and expert, and
Americans whose. duty it, is to
combat it have a healthy respect
for the enemy. - . .
Allen W. Dullest?mer head
of the Central In elligence
Ager4c nd probably the most
efficient espionage man in the
'United States, says of'the KGB:
"It is a multi-purpose, -clan-
destine arm of? power that can
in the last analysis carry out al-
most any act that the Soviet
.leadership, assigns -to it.
Many Uses I
First of Two Articles tered all through this nation. It version, manipulation and vio-
Printing Office and,bought ptib- talking about says that at the
lications issued -by. the U.'S height of the Stalin terror one
Army Engineers. , Russian out of five was-spying
An FBI, agent once counted on somebody.
1
30 known Communists attend-;Dedicated and Ruthless
!ing a scientific lecture and tak-j The''men in the top echelons
ing notes. of the KGB are-dedicated and
Russia probably ..spends $21 ruthless. During World War II
`billion a year on espionage. The the sister of V. S. Abakumov,
,.spy organization is called the 1 a Soviet intelligence chief, was
:State Security Service (KGB). It arrested for speculating in the,
the KGB agent may be.a chauf-
feur," but he gives orders to the
ambassador.
Russians are natural born
conspirators and they make ex-
black market. The case was re-
ferred, to: Abakumov, . who in-
stantly wrote out this -'order:
"Speculation during war time is
treason. Shoot her."
The Russians are experts in
lining up Americans to obtain
information. 'The other day
Robert G. Thompson, a former
member of the U. S.. Air Force,
was sentenced to 30 years -in
prison for passing secrets to the
KGB while stationed in Berlin.
It turned out that the Russians
,It is an' instrument for sub- ' One Ru sian agent was re-
cruited when he was found rid-
ing on a train without a ticket."'
The KGB thought he hod spe
cial qualifications and offered
him a choice of joining' up or!
going to prison for 25 years for
violating the railroad rules. He
joined.
Careful Training
Moscow trains its agents
carefully.' Capt. Nikolai Khokh-
lov, who defected to the Amer-
icans in 1954, said he was thor-,
oughly trained in judo, the use
of small arms and the fast driv-
ing of an automobile. One spe-
cial weapon used by the Rus=
sians was a pistol about four
inches long with three barrel
in vertical alignment. The pis-
tol was accurate at 25 feet andl
the sound of the shot was noll.
louder than the snapping of
In the field of international'k
espionage nobody wins all the'
time. The Russians have had.
some stunning successes, bu
they also suffer from occasionata
defections. One of the mos
damaging was Igor - Gouzenko,
who walked out of the Soviet;
embassy in Ottawa one day ands
turned over to Canadian ai thor-I
ities all the Russian codes and
ciphers. --
Walter Krivitsky, chief of
Russian ~ espionage in Holland,
defected t
the W
t
o
es
and there
is positive proof that lie was
It was so important that Russian
agents were sent to the United',
States to kill Krivitsky and;
they accomplished their-mission'
in a .hotel room here in Wash-
ington. '
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