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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700110013-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 11, 2006
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: November 18, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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1. TIMS
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The defection received wide publicity, as
did-a. Snvinf
p ca asylum. Subsequent
developments indicate Runge's loss..was a
"unge
defected in West Germanypanda asked U .S.
authorities for oliti 1
Very recently, a Soviet 's n d
Unfair, Even in Spying
' ~ 1 6 1967
-' - U11 I, inat a. ,WA, agent ;
had deserted to their side. The American was
identified nc _rnl,,, 0-'LL
-???~__- CUM tine Soviets
said hef was recruited by CIA while working '.y;
as,_a .State Department code clerk in India
e pointed an accurately
incriminatinc ifinuar of .,.v....c-.
g and counter-charges were
burled' back and forth in the Smith affair,
Runge began to talk H
As char es
e epartment,.
but denials that he had ever been associated . -`?
with CIA'
.aa?+a. N?y wm name.1-,.
(had once worked for the tit
D 4
- ..b...~~ JL.,a Lcie Soviet .:
government who were secreted in important.. 1 military. and
diplomatic
,
posts -in the West I
I German' government. Runge, it developed;
)had mastermifted a whole rin
-r
g
o
d
A
es merchant. ~,i
His disclosures revealed many secrets of the
a this. he struck hardy through the u likel
source of a Ru
i
y
ss
an literar
charged the CIA h
ad attempted to overthrow
Nehru and also to th
a
t
w
r
the development of
Indian agriculture in order
to keep that na
tion dependent on the U.S. for food supplies. There was a differen
i
ce
n the spy charges..
Runge's accusati
ons were specific; he impli
cated? others who were arrested and one spy.,
who committed suicid
e. The. Smith allega_
tions,'.on the other hand, were so broad and
vague as to be unyielding to proof,' purposely.
so no doubt. But we sh
'
'
ouldn
t
delude our-
selves. There are many people In the world
who are prepared to believe the worst about
!America on the fli
i
ms
est of evidence. We
j haven't always been guiltless in our conduct
i of international affairs t
, o be sure, but the
spectre of this nation using starving children
as pawns in the cold-blo
d
o
Pursuit of,
policies - and that is the horrible Implicatiot
? n
of the agricultural sab
otage charge :..: must .
new tow
even tor the aeGeit which. I
characteriatiw nF ,...____
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