SOVIET EXPELS TWO AMERICANS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700010014-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 16, 2006
• Sequence Number: 14
• Publication Date: October 1, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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NVIET EXPELS'
1 I ]~'l lie added that his brother had
6j 'gone tq Russia hoping to master
"d know he wanted to reniaiii-
free of any entanglements that
could mean trouble for his future
the Russian language. Robert said
Of Working For'CIA
'side Russia that he was proceed.
'ing to Paris and planned to return
from there to California.
Economic Crime
Americans, one a diplomat, were' According to the embassy here,
accused by. Russia today of work-, Riegg. turned up at the United
ling for 'the 'Central Intelligence States Embassy in Bucharest on
Agency and engaging inn "hostilelSeptemb'er 12 and reported what
activities." The charges werethad happened to him, saying that
promptly denied by United States
Officials,
The Soviet labor newspaper
Trud Laid Nicholas H. Riegg, 26,
of Concord, Cal., a graduate of
the University of Pennsylvania
and one of the accused, was ex-
pelled this month. Riegg told the
United States Embassy in Bucha
p
men
en
ed
iegg
worked
for the CIA, On Dawson Case
The second American, . Donald Moscow, Sept. 30 IM- The United
It. Lesh, 34, of Sim City, Ariz? alStates Embassy today drew a'cur=
United States Embassy secretary,
ltain of secrecy around the case of
was expelled September. 14, butt
ho specific charges were madeian American Peace Corps yolun-
against him until today, Leer being held by Soviet' authori-
The United States Embassy here!ties. This suggested that develop-
denied the charges against Lesh.Iments might be in the offing,
who'.was, accused of being a con'! The acting deputy chief of mis-
tact man for Riegg and ,subvert-;sion at the embassy, Davis E.
;ing AfricanEudents in Moscow,; foster, made a third American
:The embassy termed the ,charge, ns try) foto the Soviet r the release of Thomas
against Lesh completely . un-I p Dawson, arrested September
!founded. 11 while strolling on the Soviet
The Soviet newspaper said Riegg' Iranian border. '
had'tried to come to Russia as' a' On the' two previous requests,
student twice, once to Leningrad'Georgy R. Kornienko, director'of
he visited the country as a tourist section: simply said the would, in-
In 1964 and 1966, the newspaper form his superiors, the' embassy
;said: It said he had been trained had reported earlier:
;[or+ his work by CIA 'agents in This time the,embass~y declined,,`
Stockholm and had brought to say what Karmenko s reaction!
anti-Soviet literature was to tho spptal mado yasteN
Iday .w.witi vS rr:L Lin 1, ,'did
To Study Language
In Concord, Cal. Riegg's
brother, Robert D. Riegg, said he
was certain, that Nicholas never
would be' involved' fn such activi-
ties. He said Nicholas wanted' a
career in international. relations, . .
which he studied at the Univer
sity . of .'Pennsylvania, 'He was
graduated in'.;igr r.I
rest, Romania, that he-was "en-
trapped," given', rough treatment,
Subverting African Students
In Washington, the State De-
art
t d
i
R
'
u i vlal rtuv, 111 hue UKra]ne,
about -400 miles south of Moscow,
and charged -with the economic
crime of trying. to, sell some of
his clothes. I . .
He 'was, held incommunicado
overnight, was denied permission
to get in touch with his embassy
and threatened with' prison. After
signing a statement, he was taken
before a "peoples judge"-mean-
ing a layman-and expelled.
U.S.' Embassy Quiet
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