THE STRANGE CASE OF 'COL. (CLASSIFIED) (PART II)

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• Publication Date: March 25, 1966
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BOX 3 ZAREPHATH, N. J.
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out in our issue of February 11, 1965, reported that
H.E. Kimsey, a former official of the Central Intel-
ligence Agency, has personal knowledge that the
C.I.A. has fingerprints, sole prints, dental charts
and blood tests which establish the identity of"Col.
Michel Goleniewski" as the Tsarevich Aleksei
Nicholnevich of Russia. Sworn testimony before the,
Senate Internal Security Sub-Committee, released
January 5, 1966, established by competent witness
the reliability of information supplied to our gov-
ernment by "Col. Goleniewski."
The intelligence information and documents he
supplied resulted in the exposure of international
espionage apparatus of the Communist Conspiracy
with operations in England, France, Israel, West
Germany, Sweden, Denmark and the United States,
members of which had penetrated high into the intel-
ligence services of Western countries in some in-
stances. These cases resulted in the arrest and trial
and conviction of a number of important agents of
the communists and provided invaluable security
information in the military, political and economic
fields. Some of the details concerning the life of
Aleksei in the United States will now be shown as
well as some data on others who have helped our
ountry similarly.
Aleksei began supplying information and micro-
films to the United States beginning in April 1958,
nd was jn danger of detection and certain execution
ach day thereafter. By the end of 1960 Aleksei had
eason to believe that the Soviet KGB apparatus,
hich operates worldwide, had been drawing closer
o his operations. Thereafter, having made contact
with U.S. officials and arranged for transportation,
e came to the United States on January 12, 1961,
rriving by U.S. Military Air Transport together with
is wife, Irmgard Margaretta Romanoff.
lie first lived at McLean, Virginia and then in an
partment house in Arlington, Virginia. In March-1962
is was moved into an apartment in the Long Island,
Y. area, all locations which were selected by U.S.
uthorities. During this period Aleksei was in con-
tent consultation with U.S. Intelligence officers
nd for a portion of the ti wa ven a
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Aleksei had previously sent to the United States
ovbr 5,000 pages of secret documents on microfilm
and 160 pages of typewritten reports. He had brought
with him dossiers on 240 individuals. The interpre-
tation of all this intelligence information was to take
a long time. In addition, his consul.taCions and other
intelligence on military matters were of importance
to ..S. authorities. Under the name of "Col. Golen-
iewski" Aleksei entered into a contract.#B-39752,
with the Central Intelligence Agency on Sept. 16,
1961, which detailed financial support, protection,
medical care, etc. The contract was renewed on June
16,1962 for one year. The contract was subsequently
broken by the C.I.A.
Aleksei protested and appealed through the
Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. De-
partment of Justice. This resulted in a new contract
being drawn up and signed on October 7, 1963 again
in the name of "Col.Golcniewski." It provided that
he was retained as an employee-c onsultant of the
Central Intelligence Agency with a salary of $14,565
per year plus fringe benefit reimbursements. The
contract provided for a one-year notice of cancellation.
In spite of this, three months later, on January 10, 1964,
the C.I.A. broke the contract and is at present $50,000.00
in arrears with his salary payments.
This information concerning the contracts we ob-
tained from a memorandum prepared by Aleksei's at-
torney. On October 5, 1965 the C.I.A. gave notice of
cancellation. The attorney had a conference with
John Warner of the C.I.A., after threatening to take'
the case to federal court,but the C.I.A. refused to
pay anything. In reporting the results of his confer-
ence with Mr..Warner, Aleksei's attorney stated in
a letter, "In parting, he told me that the C.I.A. were
concerned with your safety."
Whether they are really concerned or whether
this was a veiled threat we do not know. However,
it is known that in April of 1963, at the request of
the C.I.A.,a license to carry a pistol was issued to
Aleksei under a cover name by the New York City
Police Department, and an automatic revolver was
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renewal o e permit, a see turned over tot e
authorities together with the revolver for which the
C.I.A. had promised to substitute a smaller lighter
gun. Neither the permit nor the gun were ever received
,by Alexci. A letter written to the New York City
Police Department by Aleksei's lawyer brought forth
the following reply, "With reference to your recent
inquiry concerning the possible issuance of a pistol
permit to-(cover name)-please be advised that a re-
view of our files discloses that the original pistol
permit was issued to - (cover name) - as a result of
a request by a Federal Agency. The pistol was not
supplied by this Department and was not repossessed
by this Department. We have been informed by the
Federal Agency concerned that they feel there is no
longer any justification for renewal of such permit."
'(signed) Edward J. McCabe, Deputy Commissioner
In Charge of Licenses.
On December 22, 1965 Aleksei's attorney wrote
to the Central Intelligence Agency, McLean,Virginia
to the attention of John Warner (Legislative Counsel),
"Kindly take notice that I have this day been re-
tained by'- (cover name) - to inform you to the effect
that you are charged and responsible for his personal
safety as well as the safety of his family. Kindly
take further notice that should anything happen to
him and his family, appropriate action will be taken
against you because of 3Tour negligence."
In the Senate Internal Security Sub-Committee
Report of September 14, 1961, entitled "The Bang-
Jensen Case," pages 61-2, the following appears,
"There has been a long list of suicides under highly
questionable circumstances, involving Soviet defect-
ors, prominent anti-Communist or anti-Stalinists, and
people who might have had knowledge about which
the Kremlin had reason to be sensitive.
"Among these mysterious suicides in recent
years have been Walter Krivitsky, Lawrence Duggan,
Walter Marvin Smith, Louis. Adamic, Morton E. Kent,
Stepan Bandera, and Povl Bang-Jensen.
"It iS common knowledge among those who have
worked in the Soviet apparatus that the Soviets have
highly developed techniques for simulating suicide.
Several Soviet refugees had given direct testimony
on this point. Perhaps most significant is the fol-
lowing statement by Petr S. Deriabian, a former member
of the Soviet terror apparatus who defected in 1954.
"'It is general knowledge among those who have
worked in the ranks of the MVD that the MVD, when
it undertakes the liquidation of political opponents,
has certain techniques for simulating suicide and
other techniques of inducing suicide. A convincing
The "suicide" of Stepan andera has since been
proved to be a Soviet-ordered murder. Just recently
we have had another questionable "suicide." On
Friday, February 25, 1966 at 10:30 A.M. Victor A.
Kravchenko was found in his apartment at 14 E. 69th
Street, New York City with a bullet through his
right temple. .
Kravchenko had defected from the Soviets in 1944
while assigned to the Soviet Purchasing Commission
in Washington, D.C. As Viktor Andreevich Kray-
chenko, he had been a Soviet Army captain. He was
,the author of a best seller, "I Chose Freedom" and
had been living in the same apartment for yen years
"Minder the name of Peter Martin. The newspapers
referred to his death as "an alleged suicide." The
bullet which killed Kravchenko was fired from his
38 calibre Colt Cobra which was found in the right
hand pocket of his jacket.
Kravchenko, who was 61 years old, had spent
the previous night at the home of Mrs. Norman Hap-
good, 139 East 66th Street, New York `C.ity, as did
Robert St.Clair, a friend of Kravchenko, who is a
lecturer at the Baruch School of City College of
New York. Mrs. Hapgood is Mr. St.Clair's mother-in-
law and was a sponsor of the American Russian
Institute and a director of the American Society for
Cultural Relations with Russia, both cited as com-
munist-fronts. Kravchenko had gone back to his
apartment in the morning, together with Mr. St.John
who told the police that at the time of the alleged
"suicide" he had gone to the store to buy some pipe
cleaners for Mr. Kravchenko. Another enemy of the
Soviets eliminated.
On November 22, 1965 the Senate Internal Se-
curity Sub-Committee released a publication entitled,
"Murder International, Inc. Murder and Kidnaping as
an Instrument of Soviet Policy." In the introduction
Sen. Thomas Dodd pointed out that the Soviets have
a "Department of Blood-Wet Affairs" and that it
condemns prospective victims via trial in absentia.
He showed how documents are in the possession of
the Sub-Committee staff which tell a worldwide
forty-year story of murder as an instrument of com-
munist policy. Sen. Dodd stated, "What this testi-
mony and these documents add up to is thatpolitical
murder of Soviet refugees and of non-Soviet citizens
has been systematically carried out by a special
planning apparatus of the Kremlin, beginning im-
mediately after the Russian Revolution and carrying
on to the present day."
"suicide" may take a year or two to prepare. During Either as "Col. Goleniewaki,"a Polish defector,
this perio 1, the subject's life is. examined minutely or Aleksei.Romanoff, heir to the Russian throne, a
in order to determine the methods most suitable to more likely candidate for Soviet extermination could
his personality and circumstances. Meanwhile, stories hardly be found. Neither Aleksei nor his family are
may be circulated to the press, if possible, and at given any protection or even supplied with a gun
the very least among his neighbors, that the subject with which to defend themselves. There have been
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a deadly fungus bacteria. . near-miss accidents
which' were obvious set-ups.
Neither Aleksei nor his wife have been able to
obtain proper Immigration and Naturalization identi-
fication cards in spite of frustrating correspondence
with several government officials and even an ad
placed in various papers to call attention to their
plight. During the year 1964-5 Aleksei wrote five
letters to the C.I.A. Director, sent them by regis-
tered mail, and received an answer to none. Regis-
tered letters to J. Edgar Hoover also brought no
reply or even acknowledgement of their receipt. The
only government official who has replied to his letters
is Sen. James Eastland, Chairman of the Senate
Judiciary Committee and its Internal Security Sub-
Committee.
The activities of the C.I.A. are hardly such that
they would inspire trust and confidence under any
circumstances. That the C.I.A, has been involved in
the overthrow of the Trujillo Government in the
Dominican Republic and the Diem Regime in South
Viet Nam has been reported by several journalists.
Both of these incidents resulted in the murder of the
anti-communist government head. The Bay of Pigs
fiasco (with tanks with turrets which would not
turn, radios with wrong frequency, ship winches that
did not work, the cream of Cuba's young patriotic
anti-communists sacrificed to Castro) was a C.I.A.
operation.
The Allen-Scott Report of July 30, 1965 stated
under the title, "Informers Die Violently,"
"THE FIFTH COLUMN -The Central Intelligence
Agency also is suffering an alarming increase in
casualties among its Cuban.' informers.'
"While CIA authorities are not discussing this
problem with Congress, they are conducting their
own investigation to ascertain whether 'leaks' or
`espionage' within the government is responsible
for their losses.
"Within two weeks after an intelligence estimate
on the anti-Castro underground was circulated within
the State Department, Fidel Castro's secret police
had rounded up over half of those whose names
appeared in the document.
"`The crackdown was so thorough that Castro's
agents could only have done the job with inside in-
formation,' stated a reliable State Department source.
`The Cuban police used lists identical to those con-
tained in the U.S. document in making their arrests."
The J.M. Kaplan Fund, Inc. of New York City
has been used by the C.I.A. as a means of making
secret :rants. In 1963 the Kaplan Fund gave $395,
000 to the Institute of International Labor Research,
Inc., also known as Labor Research Institute, of
113 E. 37th Street, New York. Associated with this
organization were Norman Thomas, Frank Trager,
.
Sasha Vollman who lives at 245 East 80th Street,
New York City. This New York front in turn financed
a Marxist Institute in the Dominican Republic which
in turn was promoting Juan Bosch. Bosch likes to
be called a Marxist instead of the Communist which
he is. Vollman has been the man behind the scenes
in much of the communist-inspired activity in the
Dominican Republic.
A high official of the C.I.A. for several years
was William P. Bundy. He is the man who, as As-
sistant Defense Secretary for International Security
Affairs, recommended huge sums of money for Com-
munist Yugoslavia. One of his projects was to
,supply Communist murderer Tito with 130 F36D
Sabre Jets and arrange for Communist fighter pilots
to be trained in Texas. Bundy is married to Mary
Acheson, daughter of Dean Acheson, who said he
would never turn his back on Alger Hiss and con-
tinues to have Alger's brother, Donald, an identified
communist, working in his Washington, D.C. law
office. William Bundy was chairman of the Fund
Raising Committee for Alger Hiss's defense. He is
credited with having "stage managed" the over-
throw of the Diem Regime in Viet Nam which re-
sulted in the murder of President Diem.
Allen Dulles was Bundy's superior in the C.I.A.
and the man PovI Bang Jensen waited months to see
in order to relate the names of potential Soviet
defectors at the U.N. who knew the names of Soviet
agents in U.S..Intelligence Agencies. When a meet-
ing was finally arranged by the Danish Ambassador,
an Jensen conferred for half an hour in a private
room with Dulles. After Bang-Jensen's "suicide,"
Dulles told a Senate Committee that Bang-Jensen
had told him "nothing." This would hardly seem
possible. .that Bang-Jensen had tried for so long to
see Dulles in order to tell him "nothing," or per-
haps it was "nothing" that Dulles wanted anyone
else to know.
The C.I.A. operates in mystery, its finances
are kept a secret from the public. The money ap-
propriated for its use is apportioned among various
,government departments but is estimated by some
sources to run as high as two billion dollars per
year. It operates throughout the world and, although
the prime. responsibility for security in the United
States rests with the F.B.I., the C.I.A. nevertheless
operates here through fronts, through financed pro-
jects at certain universities and through individuals
ostensibly working for other departments, notably
the State Department, but who in fact report secretly
to the C.I.A.
This C.I.A., which has untold millions available
for use against anti-communist governments, for the
promotion of left-wing candidates, has failed to pay
even the small amount due Aleksei under the terms
left him in
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or his safety." Although "concerned," the C.I.A.
as made no effort to give Aleksei protection and is
he obvious source of attempts to discredit him.
Congressmen and Senators who have made inquiry
oncerningAleksei are given a report which verifies
he service he performed for our country and the
rec world, and his reliability as a source of infor-
iation. This they could not deny as there are
ommunist espionage agents now serving long prison
erms in several countries as a result of his dis-
losures and spy rings have been broken up. Butthe
ource from which our legislators derive the in-
ormation they pass on to their constituents then
aises questions as to Aleksei's "mental health"
nd denies the truth of his claims concerning his
dentity. No mention is made of the data supplied
by former C.I.A. official Kimsey.
By contrast Alcksei's identity is supported by a
leading CossacMonarchist, Colonel Alexis Iosifovich
1'oultzeff. lie was a member of Prince Vladimir,
Kirillovich's Executive Committee of the Supreme
Monarchist Front'and had supported Prince Vladimir
as heir to the throne of Russia. In January 25, 1965
he acknowledged Aleksei as the true Tsarevich in a
signed statement. He wrote, "I have seen the
Tsarevich Aleksei Nicholaevich myself and can
affirm that he is a man of dignity and one who de-
serves respect. He is a soldier with a deep faith
in God. All these years, the Russian people, es-
pecially the soldiers, have 'been duped by the false
propaganda of the Communists. It is nearly a half
century since these historic events: the- forced
'abdication' of The Emperor Nicholas II, the short
lived regime of the Provisional Government, the,
usurpation of power by the Bolsheviks, and the
creation of a regime based on terror and on lies and
especially on the greatest deception: the true story
of the destiny of the Imperial Family -- that there
was no massacre at Ekaterinburg, as nearly every-
one believed, but the Emperor, the Empress Alex-
andra Fcodorovna, and all their children were taken
away clandestinely to an exile in Poland, and that
the Tsarevich Aleksei Nicholaevich, and his four
sisters, are still alive.
"With the present situation in Russia there is a
great opportunity to restore the soul of Russia."
Many other people, in Congress, the F.B.I., the
State Department as well as the C.I.A., are familiar
with much of the story.of"Col.' Goleniewski."If, as
is stated by Herman Kimsey, the C.I.A. has the
proof that "Col. Goleniewski" is in reality the
supposedly murdered heir to the throne of Russia,
it obviously does not intend to release it. This
would be its expected course of action in view of
its activities which always seem to benefit the
communists and hamper the anti-communists.
Should Aleksei be assassinated or commit
"suicide," the responsibility for it will fall heavily
on those who could have and should have taken
steps to prevent it. This is the Central Intelligence
Agency which has been in contact with Aleksei from
the time of his first attempts to help the West with
information. They received valuable information from.
him, some of which they did nothing about (the part
involving people in U.S. government) and some of
which led to spectacular results. They arranged for
him to leave Poland and come to the United States
where he felt he would be safe. Now they have
Burned against him, casting doubts upon his sanity
and taking away support and protection. Although
they admit the value and reliability of his information
they are repaying him in a way to discourage others
who mightwish to give such information inthe future.
We' urge our fellow anti-communists, whether
they accept him as Alexei Nicholaevich Romanoff,
heir to the throne of Russia,or"Col. Goleniewski,"
a Polish defector who tried to help the people and
government of the United States by giving information
concerning those who are plotting against them in
and out of their own government, to insist that
justice be done in this "strange case." The C.I.A.
must be held responsible for its actions . . its.
secret archives must be made to disgorge the infor-
mation needed to solve "the strange case of Col.
Goleniewski."
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