MOSCOW PLAGUED BY JITTERS OVER BALTIC EXILES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400190057-2
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• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 28, 2000
• Sequence Number: 57
• Publication Date: May 2, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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rCHARLES BARTLETT
MAY , 2 1966;.. ..,
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1 V ~ osco w Pl a ued ~- Jitters C~
g y ver Baltic Exiles ,
' ~ NEW YORK -The question States in 1961 to attend a including a failure to attach this sordid chapter in histo ?
,of whether lJci?ik ;jeige'~is a congress of linguists. The C1A sufficient significance to The Baltic states were th
Communist '`""i'~~fi['' `o~' an, had established khat he was arxism, in the Baltic repub- ' ? first to recognize the Soviet
' -patriotic Estonian hero serves an agent. He was interviewed lies. But the guerrilla bands, '~ government In 197A and the 3
at least to direct attention to ~ ~ closely during his stay and encircled by the Soviet army ,first to be swallowed in 1939. ;
.;the Soviet enslavement of the 'when all the questions had , and unaided by the West, ', ~ One year o[ Communist rule ;
rBaltic republics. This remind-~' been asked, he was advised to stopped fighting In the early . was so brutal that the Ger-
er ?ls useful at a time when leave the country. He re- 195o's, None of the ingredients mans were recetived as libera-
,:,the Kremlin is making free- : turned to Stockholm but ? of an u risln exists toda . '
"8om an issue in South Viet' disappeared wring May 1963..`, Still pthese nations were ~ tors in the Baltic states. They'
~~Nam, ' No one knew what had ha - ': had endured the rigors of
~. Whatever Heine proves to paned to him until a , loiter ?.~. highly literate before thefalse elections, mass deports- ~
' } be, there are ample grounds ,appeared five ?: months later Soviets seized them in 1939 bons, and shootings and they ~
for the charge that Moscow ~ over his name in Izvestia. It and their cultures are being :counted on the West's deter- ;
sends agents to penetrate comnlatned Rhat ha tio~ tip?? ? doggedly preserved against minatlnn ~? ~~..e ?ti..... ~_..... e
AIIG w,ulnumwes. ~cners dit~d out of the West by, 'Luc algor~ of u,e wmmumst return Of the Russians. '
have made this effort. In fact CIA t' system. A spirit o[ national-
se
cu ion. ' ism ~ sustained in language But their rescue lost ib ,
~ the greatest .mark of Soviet oviet policy toward exiles priority as the war unfolded. '
!;'concern for the nations it has.) from the Baltic states and the ,?.and literature, a sort of Churchill and Roosevelt'
t occupied is the, attention It ''.Ukraine is to keep them cultural subversion encour- ?gradually acceded to Stalin's ?,
~. accords their exiles. ;penetrated, lntimidaked and lE aged by the exiles. insistence upon having the " .
~'X49.?lg--Estonian named possible; divided. A Comrr'ru-. "Bourgeois nationalism" is BalE~ic states. "Irt a deadly
Artur Halna~ landed in , nist newspaper, Homeland, is a serious sin in Communist , struggle," Churchill wrote '
'Swe'ifen after escaping from ,distributed in their native ? QYos but its persistence is later, "it !s not right to as.
Soviet territory In 1955. He.;~ tongues and at persistently ;attested to by reports reach- some more burdeps than
' was an attractive, bright ' "attacks the .exile leadership, ing -the West that a large those who are fighting ibr a ?,
~~ young fellow and he took a :Occasionally' an active exile ~ number of writers, more than 'great cause can bear.?'
t part-time job with the Associ- ;..leader is assasinated in? ~ and less than 40, were The United States could
r ated Press while he studied at ~ .Europe by Soviet agents. : ^? arrested in the Ukraine last perhaps have used its nuclear
~, Stockholm 'University. Later , All this activity could fall. Such activitiies keep alive weight to save these bountries;
i hg, ,..worked Kith Estonian ; betray a sense of insecurity ..the exiles' hopes that libera- ~ at the end of the war. The .
i` group Sweden and wrote a.' on the pant of the Kremlin. A tion, sparked from within, . _ evidence the Heine case
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