SAY LENIN SPIRITED ROYAL FAMILY OUT OF RUSSIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70-00058R000300030028-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 24, 2000
• Sequence Number: 28
• Publication Date: September 12, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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i'!. to ..i hictorio ?P'~? TTI n{.o1 TT of
ated by Communist revolutionaries' at Ekaterinburg,
. Siberia; on the night of July 16, 1018.
pit inthe'nearby countryside; the official chroniclers
-
Imperial, ,Romanov dynasty
clysm which has maintained 1?y mysterious and controver-
been known and accepted by story, :first appeared In the
'." the world. . . .:i L. X. Y, .Journal-American last '
the historical Account is a Communist circlesV fn.' Po h
complete fraud. ., land.:' said -Mr. Speller, "Is
Claim, after a protracted ,~ (was able to rise so high in'the
e probe in two continents-that secret. police as well as In
On the T~cireviteh
slight-
Delayed Shocker
said Mr. Speller, "anti in a. "Michael Goleniewski was : Polish Army In 1946 and rose
few days at least four of i ot'only a secret police offi- to the rank of colonel."
them,. including three of the cia.l.'Iie was, a high-ranking This reporter then inter-
Grand IJuchesscs, will be to- (. officer in the Whtle Guard viewed Goleniewski In, his'
gether here In New York and' and in command of some' apartment, an interview ar-
ready to tell their. stories." 15,000, officers in the Polish ranged by *Mr. Speller. He
armed'. forces. Many of the was greeted by a handsome
t;ooerr, speller, puouaner, vi
33 W. 42d st. .' cral parts of Europe," said
"There is-no doubt that all Mr. Speller. "We know it to
Lenin himself, according to "My .'-sons and 'I 'have
eassination, they say. [ Poles, many of them members ,
Czar Nicholas. his wife. and '. of the , clandestine Russian v
~'- out of Ekaterinburg' in dis- White Guard, knew his real
ise on a deal arranger! .by J'. identity.
couptt,y~~cco~,~ncp~crg~ar~gi a l/ 0:00,q 8Ropo
son,. dfi ~l~ dkb~' a o M" Q ? -7,.- l
nu.. Wit; 4 V & uG+wyUU ' as officials of the U.S. Gov- .'. "Are ? you : really. Grand
shocker in Mr., Speller's ac-. ernment were on the alert to Duke Alexei, the Tsarevitch?" .
woaa a~aau a c.-yc.a,a a
of Long Island,. Mrs. Speller
avers.
But Alexel is also the high-
-i latter-knew Goleniewski was medium-build figure with a
plot to bank Golcnlewski's ,
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In cash and Jewels in The
West-a fortune estimated Jo Reveal Self
to be around $400 million. "Why have you waited all
"If Goleniewski, with the those years to say so?"
tacit assistance of the Krcm- "While Stalin and . my
lin, could win legal claim to father were both alive? we
that -fortune, then the Uni- were in constant danger and
';
.
ted States, for example, could we all followed my father's,
not deduct such huge govern- orders to remain under-
mental debts as Russia has ground In peril.of being killed
run up on lend-lease, etc. J,it our Identity- became
"In other words, Golenicw known."
ski, as an Individual, could , - "When did your father
-get the whole pile - then: I die?"
divvy It up with the Kremlin - I "In 1952." .!
as per prior. secret agree-.', "Well, then,. since Stalin, q
ment?. ;of whom .you lived in such I
"Well,, we have run out j .fear, died the following year, ?
that theory and have found what has deterred you in the
it doesn't hold water: We are ,I last ten, years from malting
satisfied that Alexel, as Gol- .known who you are?"
eniewski, has been' secretly . "Believe me, in those ten
working against the Com- f years I have thought of little
in'unists his whole life long ', cisc. But I had to give grave
and with. especial. effective- consideration to the safety of
of those Russian and Polish
patriots who had risked their -'
lives to protect me and my
family.-That Is still an urgent
matter. It governs every move
t make."
"When you defected to the
United # States In January,
1961, with the help of the\r
Central Intelligence Agency,
did the CIA know th at you,
Michael Goleniewski, were i
also Alexi, son of the Czar?" :
WP'it02~l?_,*Ilen Dulles,
`'+~~1j ~h?ir tor, a few