CIA HIDING RED DEFECTOR FROM PROBERS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000300140087-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 18, 1999
• Sequence Number: 87
• Publication Date: March 4, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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NEW YOItK'
JOURNAL ANIERWAN
N DO'S SEPIA Ti
By GUY RICHARDS
uopyriglit IM, N.Y. Journal -American
"I am flying up to see you for in-
formation on the whole story which ob-
CPsf can't be given over the tele-
With these words, Rep. John Milan
tls!lbrook, (R.-Ohio) announced his ar-
rival later today in the offices of '.the-
N. Y. Journal-American.
was to 1ea1rn
he said
His
ur
ose
,
p
p
,
all details and background about the ,been .a victim of a. Soviet "poli- convincing when he bared the
tical murder dressed up as a existence of these agents,?and
sensational disclosures by. Soviet secret'suicide.") named names.
police defector and former high-rank- "It is vitally important," Rep Thus, both branche of the
Government may be speaking
ing official, Lt. Col. Michal Goieniew- Ashbrook continued, "that Col.
' Golenicwski appear before my in good faith with what they
haven't
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committee.' "It is high time ac
this newspaper. the whole State Dept. and its learned, from the Polish-born
the . policies be brought to account. defector
a member of
Ashbrook
Rep
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,
.
It has consistently lied about BALANCE OF POWER
House Un-American . Activities Com- such Communist penetration The case bids fair to become
rnittee added: as those made in Warsaw. a classic in the balance of
f
-1 wane to get every pal tilde o
Rep. Ashbrook's sudden de-
information I can get about Goleniew cision to make a `trip to New
ski's charges of .KGB.. agents in the York mirrored the stepped-up
Agency. lowed publication of stories
"
I note that the Federal agencies this week In the Journal-Amer-
_ . -- ican.
A number of members or in-
vestigators from -Senate and
House panels called this news.
,Paper yesterday, seeking help
and information. They wanted
directions for finding , Col.
Goleniewski, who is still in a
CIA hideout.
of the touchiest aspects of this
unique case-the conflict of
versions of the defector's story
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n
or s
own safety, claims he was once
highly useful, but is now unde-
`?pendable.
The Executive branch, which REP. ASHBROOK.
is holding. the erstwhile spy- "I Want All Information"
master in sequestratio
f hi
as relayed 'by spokesmen of the
Executive and Legislative
branches of the Government.
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classic maneuver they used o;
ov iLiang Jensen, trying t,
Infer that o, o eniews i s
gone off his rocker."
vas a former Danish dipjonma
dismissed from the United N
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ark
Queens, on Thanksgiving Day
1959. Although New York polic
officially list his death as.
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It also claims he never in-
formed it of the KGB agents in
the State Dpt. and the CIA.
Col. Goleniewski said the rea-.
son high CIA officials may not
have received the information
was that it had been quashed
before reaching them by some
o its own agents.
Emissaries of the. Legislative
branch, Including a Congress
man, and two aides who inter-1
viewed him-one of them twice
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branches of Federal govern- Congress must, nevertheless,
meat. . l approve It on a pig-in-a-poke
Will the Executive branch
ever let any of the Senate oi-
l House committtecs take the
basis, sight unseen.
As related in Monday's
Journal-Aiyerican, Col. Gel
testimony in secret session ieniewski said that about $1.2-,
which Col. Goleniewski v' ants imillion in CIA funds was'
to deliver? Or will it become a channeled to the Reds in Vien-;
Mexican standoff, destined fore na and elsewhere. This misuse
bitter debate in the upcoming of government money, which
Presidential campai^n? finds us paying for our own
Strong indications that more subversion, is a very definite
field for Investigation for thei
will be heard about Col. Crolen- ~
lewski came from many sources. Operations Committee.
'.l'he House Armed Services Even agents for the Warrenl
Committee is reportedly anx commission investigating the
sous to get more information,; ssassinationn of President Hen-
:uud possibly direct testim
who, ilke to talk to Col. Goleniewa now'
regarding the 10 Marines ony,
were compromised by beautiful
Polish girls acting as Informa-
tion-collectors for Soviet
agelas.
A DIM VIEW
A State Dept. spokesman has
shrugged this off as nothing
more than "boys will be boys."
However, members of the sub-
committee take 'a .dimn view of
this lighthearted approach. .
This Is because the defector
has been able- to supply an
interesting'-hit of Informations
to a Congressional aide-name-
ly, the fact that there is a
0RU assassin school in Minsk,
The GRU Is considered a
key agency in the operation of
world-wide Soviet espionage.
After Pres. Kennedy's assassi-'
nation on. Nov. 22, the Congres- I.
They know that Marine de-'(,sional aide established his third
tachments guard all our lm- contact with Col. Goleniewski,
portant Embassies around the
,-world. The case in Warsaw in-
volved girls coming into dormi-
tory-barracks type quarters
which the Marine enlisted men
occupied, spending night after
night there, and gathering a
great deal of Information.
The girls listened carefully
to ask him this pointed qucs-,
tion:
"Did the KGB operate a
school for assassins - better:
known as Dept. 13-in Minsk?"
This is the city where Lee Os-
wald spent most of his time in,
Russia, the city where he met
and married Marina, now his
questioned knowingly, but with widow.
seeming innocence, and turned ESPIONAGE ARM
,over detailed reports of every- The Colonel replied that al-
thing they gathered to their though the KGB did not main-
Red spymasters. taro a school for assassins there,
GRAVE INDISCRETION the GRU, the military espio-
That this could happen with'.nage arm, did have such an in-
knowledge of the Marine de- stitution in Minsk.
tachments' commanding offi-! This doesn't necessarily means
cers, or In the naive belief that':that- Oswald attended . tine:,
school for assassins, but It'
Communists weren't' making doesn't rule out the possibility,
studied use of material gath
ered, is regarded as grave in- either.
,discretion by' the very unit; The colonel's knowledgeable'
charged with the security of answer, while it proved, nothing
our embassies.
Other 'Congressional commit-
tees that may enter the case
are the powerful Government
Operations Committees of the
House and Senate. These are
among the several. groups that
concern themselves with the
multi-million-dollar budget of
the Central Intelligence Agency.
The size of this budget, and
its breakdown, are secret. In
fact, the sums are so carefully
agencwrs that it is- doubtful
whether half-a-dozen members
of Congress actually have any
Idea how much the CIA is ac-
tually, costAppri wd-f d* A
about Oswald, is dust another
reason why. so many people
want to have. a chat- with the
colonel... .. \