RUSS AGENCT TELLS OF SEX AND SPIES IN U.S. EMBASSY IN POLAND

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600040050-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 15, 1998
• Sequence Number: 50
• Publication Date: April 12, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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By CLARK MOLLENHOFF
b'tinueapoRs Tribune
5tafj Correspondent
WASHINGTON, D. C.
The information on sex an
subversion in the U.S. Em-
bassy in Poland was so ex-
tensive that c h i e f security
evaluator Otto F. O t.e p k a
could hardly believe it.
But t h r e e high officials
from the Central Intelligence
Agency (CIA) assured Otep-
ka and the' then Deputy Un-
dersccrutary of S t a t e Lo
T-Ienderson that it came from
a reliable informant who was
high. in .he S o v i e t intalli-
gence apparatus. They mad
a spec=a' trip to convey the
infor,r,a::cn.
it was early in 1959, an,
the CIA officials said the
could give no clues 'as, to the
identity of the man for h
vas still operating in the made a trip to Moscow where +.., ;;u,;,e for us all exper`
GB (Soviet Committee, for the Soviets had. seduced her
tate Security) network, and by employing a handsome and
ad agreed to remain in his debonair young Communist,'
ob as a "stip", or stay-in- the CIA undercover agent re-
lace informant. ported. She had lived with`
the informant was-- a man'
known to the CIA as Lt. Mi-,
chael. Goleniewski, a high.
ranking KGB intelligence of-
ficer, stationed in,Polan'd
THE INFORMATION on him for a week. "cutout" or third person he;
conditions in' the U.S. Em- SHE HAD BEEN photo- trusted rather than directly;
assy- in Warsaw was shock- raphed, and the KGB had l through the CIA.
ing. Polish party girls, acting plans to try to use this it The CIA also sought to pro-
as agents for the KGB, had material and a , money pay- tect the identity more, and l,
seduced nearly {611 of the off to obtain security infor- used still another code name
members of the Marine guard mation from her husband.. in sending information from)
and were given a rather i.-co The husband did not know of; Golenietivski to the State Do-
run of the barracks and em- it yet. partment, the FBI and other
ba',sy at night. The CIA undercover agent.U.S. intelligence agencies.
The informant stated that reported that there were oth- SEVERAL months before
a high foreign service officer, er U.S. Officials of lower, the State Department was
serviiig.as..embassy security stature in the embassy.who', told of the existence of this
of ficery was in fact acting had been compromised. im octant informant, the T LI
as a foreign, agent for the through sex and money who was given information that
KGB. were delivering information was passed to the subversive
The wife of one of the but he did not know all of section in the Washington
highest foreign service offi- the details on their names field office.
cers in the U.S. Embassy had and, positions. Goleniewski's code' name
After explaining the story was used in reporting lists
of Sp let espionage in the of immigrants or Polish em-
United States Embassy, the bassy officials in Washington,
CIA officers assured Otepka who were in fact part of a
and Henderson that, they Communist spy apparatus.
Were following up the infor- The F13I agents were as-
matior, and that no major, tounded at the amount of pre-
State' Department probe cise information.
wou;,d be necessary. TJ e information was reli-.
T'ne CIA . officials stated able, the FBI reported. Leads
i t action to remove the se- from Goleniewski were to be
curity risks from the em- followed up carefully.
bassy should be done slowly The security office pro-
and with a great deal of cau gram was simply to move
tion, for any unusual activity with caution. The members
might alert the KGB to the of the Marine guard were ro-
fact that they had a spy in tated out of Warsaw to Bonn
their ranks. l and Frankfurt, West Ger-
NEITHER Otepka nor Hen-Imany, where they could be
derson knew at the time that; questioned.
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feared that he would be ex-,
posed by Soviet agents in'
the CI['. if he used his actual'
name. He operated through a'l