HOW MANY SOVIET SPIES IN U.S. AGENCIES?

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000300150038-5
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 26, 1998
• Sequence Number: 38
• Publication Date: March 16, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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U. S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT MAR 16 1964
HOW MANY SOVIET SPIES
IN U.S. AGENCIES?
CPYRGHT
spy r er re-
port in a New York newspaper has
raised these questions:
? Did beautiful Polish girls trap
four American diplomats in compro-
mising situations so that they could be
blackmailed into a spy network?
? Did agents of the U. S. Central
Intelligence Agency in Austria pay out
1.2 million dollars to. Communists-a
third of it to the Russian secret police?-
9 Is there a Soviet spy in every
U. S. embassy abroad, in every agency
in Washington except the FBI?
Answers of "Yes" to these questions
.were made in a copyrighted dispatch
in "The New York Journal American"
on March 2.
The information allegedly came from
a Polish defector now known as Michal
Coleniewski, a former Soviet agent
described by the newspaper as "the
Hollywood prototype of the suave,
lady-killing spy." .
Inside Russia's spy ring. Colen-
iewski came to the U. S. in 1961, is
now a U. S. citizen. In answer to "The
journal American's" disclosures, Wash-
ington sources said he had been feed-
ing U. S. intelligence services with in-
formation since 1958. In some cases, it
was said, the information led to arrests
of important Red spies abroad.
There was no immediate official
comment, but reporters were told that
the newspaper's story was not consis-
tent with information Golenicwski had
given the U. S. Government.
The "gay life." The newspaper ac-
count named no one. It gave this pic-
ture of Warsaw:
"So gay and lax was the ambassa-
dorial life in the lush Polish capital,
the defector asserted, that, while the
American cats were out playing, So-
viet intelligence mice pilfered the
Embassy's safe combinations, and
probably made off with the Embassy
cipher essential to decoding secret
messages."
The story quoted Goleniewski as
saying that Moscow had planted
"cells" in the CIA and State Depart-
ment both in Washington and overseas,
and had agents everywhere except in
the FBI.
Besides the Soviet secret police, it
said, the Italian Communist Party and
the American Communist Party also
were paid off by the CIA.
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