SPUTNIK SPY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600330041-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 21, 2000
• Sequence Number: 41
• Publication Date: October 21, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

HUMAN EVENTS FOIAb3b
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By RZP. Gir'NARD LZPSCOM3 (R.-Calif.)
A news dispatch from London dated
Oct. 2, 1967, reports the disclosure that
a farmer top British In- i
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ved as a .Soviet spy for
ported, is now in Mos-
cow, having vanished
f
our years ~;
a,vAAA Beirut
ago while working as a correspondent.s dis-
closure points once again to the serious-
ness of the menace represented by the
worldwide Soviet, espionage system.
But , there is another aspect of the
article' that is deserving of attention...
The very last paragraph of the lengthy 'If
dispatch states: "It was reported that ii
l?hilby, who is now employed by the
Soviet featura agency Nova&cl, may ha
working on the new English language ?~
digest magazine Sputnik, which is due
to appear in Britain later this year.".
What is 'probably not widely known
is that the Soviet magazine, Sputnik,
on which it is- reported this.former spy
is working, is at present being distributed
in the United.States and :has been dis-
tr:outca e on bas!s VIM
January. When news of this came out-
I took up the matter with the Depart-.
ment 'of State on the basis that if this
Soviet..publication. is being disseminated
in,. 'out',. country, what has -been done
or. will be ' done toward achieving re-
ciprocity to dlWlbute United States pub-
lications in the USSR? At best, the
response has been unsatisfactory. I am;.,
advised the matter has been taken up
with the Soviets, but repeated inquiries'
as to the results have made it abun-
dantly clear that little if any progress
has been made toward this end.
Whenthe Sputnik magazine first was
distributed in the United States attempts
were made to pass it off as solely a
commercial venture. I believed then that
Sputnik' is;:,a vehicle to disseminate of
ficial propaganda of the Communist party
and the disclosure that a former Red
spy is working on the magazine cer-
tainly reinforces that belief. ?
Clearly we should receive similar con-
cleaikne from tha Sovlew In tha way
of distributing United States publica-
tions in the USSR. I do not mean,
however,' distribution of any sort of
"official" magazine, . which could be
subjected to controls. That type of ex-
change would be of limited usefulness
for-as is well known-what Soviet citi-
zens read is already strictly controlled
'
by the Soviet government. Our regular.
publications, produced by a free people:';,
in our free society; -are what should be
distributed.
Approved For Release 2001/07/27?: CIA-RDP75-00149R000600330041-8