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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700110031-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 11, 2006
• Sequence Number: 31
• Publication Date: October 25, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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:VMOSCOW, Oct: 24-The so, {
Viet union today said that a
former Corti: gent-rte
S ,fit' h1s
760 ti.1 P Y +,
c,iizon and is living ard. work.
lag in Moscow.
Smith, the weekly Literary
Gazette said, was appointed to
the central irtelligence agency,
b e c' a m e disenchanted, andI
,even tually'earn e to the Sovietl
Union to live. It was not said!
when the alleged detection took
'place. - .
Officials in the embassy here
could recall no case which:
might be identified with the
Russian claim. The timing of
I the story suggested that it was
a response to the .announce-.
meat last week that a soviet
agent had defected , to the'
United States.
1 Writes. for Magazine
The Literary Gazette devoted'
a full page to what it said was
I.the first instalment of a.story:
Smith wrote about his work
for the CIA.
The story said Smith had
willingly joined the CIS: but
later "saw for himself how the
United States government Was' j
engaged in the preparation ;
of a now world. catastrophe."
The story said Smith's ques-
tioning of American policy
resulted in his being shadowed
and eventually leaving govern-
Mont service, tho it didn't say
whether he quit or was fired.
After wandering thru Africa,
Australia, and E u r o p e, the
story said, Smith decided to
live in,the Soviet Union. .
Broke Diplomatic Code
The Literary Gazette said he
has' been involved in breaking
the diplomatic code of a devel-
oping country, said to be ori-
erLed towards the soviet bloc.
Smith was said to be a native
of Quincy, Mass., and to have
attended a private college
called Phayer academy and
Washington university. In 1943,
it was said, he worked for Four
Rivers shipyards in the manu-
facture of naval vessels. Then
he joined the navy and was
eventually involved in decipher- i
,ing . enemy codes, the story'
said.
[A ".spokesman for. George
Washington university in Wash
ington, D. C., said that a John
D~ ?'r'~Uh of Quinn, Mau., at.
.tended the school from the fall
of 1948 until June, 1950, when'
he wa's suspended for scho-
lastic reasons,]
This was the latest of several
espionage stories in the soviet
press since it was reported that
;Lt. Col. Yevgeny Runge, of the
soviet intelligence service had
exposed two spy rings in West
Germany and turned' up two
days later in the United States..
Sunday the Russians denied
that Runge had ever "served
either in the soviet army or .in
soviet security ' bodies", and
added that, the story "is false
from beginning to end."
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