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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700270024-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 27, 2004
• Sequence Number: 24
• Publication Date: February 18, 1968
• Content Type: PREL

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VIENNA EXPRESS 18. FES 68 P 5 A
(UNSIGNED ARTICLE.: ZVIENNA: SECRET OFFICE FOR SOVIET
SPIES")
(TEXT) RIGHT I N THE HEART OF VIENNA, I N ?.A COMPLETELY
UNSUSPECTED OFFICE, THERE HAS BEEN FOR YEARS A "RELAY
STATION" OF THE SOVIET SECRET SERVICE. NATO QUARTERS
. ARE CONVINCED THAT THE MAIL OF NUMEROUS EASTERN AGENTS
IN WEST AND SOUTHERN EUROPE AS 'WELL AS IN THE NORTH AFRICAN
REGION GOES THROUGH THIS OFFICE.
IN THIS CONNECTION EXPRESS HAS RECEIVED AN INTERESTING
REPORT FROM TURKEY, WHERE THE VIENNESE DR ADOLF SLAVIK,
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45 FORTYFIVE YEARS OLD, WAS ARRESTED ON A CHARGE OF
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COURT IN ISTANBUL, SLAVII{ AtMITTEED THAT KE HIMSELF.
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HAD SET UP A NGB BRANCH IN VIENNA. THIS IS AN OFFICE AT
ONE HUNDRED FIVE MARIAHILFERSTRASSEWHICH HAS BEEN
KNOWN TO AUSTRIAN STATE SECURITY POLICE FOR QUITE SOME
TIME AS A MESSAGE CENTER FOR SECRET INFORMATION.
SOVIET SPY SLAVIK,, WHO HAD BEEN IN ISTANBUL SINCE
1961 NINETEEN SIXTYONE AS PARTNER OF A VIENNA TRADE
AGENCY, BECOME THE HEAD OF SOVIET ESPIONAGE IN THE NEAR EAST.
HE OWED THIS "PROMOTION"70 ANOTHER VIENNA-BORN MAN,
KGB COLONEL ROMAN GAMOTHA , W14O. IS CONSIDERED THE LEADING
SOVIET EXPERT ON THE NEAR EAST?
PRIOR TO 1938, NINETEEN THIRTYEIGHT, SLAVIK ORGANIZED AND
HEADED THE ILLEGAL INTELLIGENCS SERVICE OF THE HITLER YOUTH, HE
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 THEN JOINED THE WAFFEN-SS AND REACHED THE RANK OF OBERSTURMFUHRER.
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AFTER 19451 NINETEEN FORTYFIVE, HE WAS TRIED AND SENTENCED--ED.)
BY A PEOPLE'S COURT. AT THE STEIN PENITENTIARY, SOVIET
SECRET SERVICE OFFICERS ESTABLISHED CONTACT WITH HIM
FOR THE FIRST TIME.,, IN 1949 NINETEEN FORTYNINE, AFTER
HIS RELEASE, HE FOUNDED WITH SOVIET SUPPORT THE SO-CALLED
NATIONAL LEAGUE, WHOSE MEMBERS WERE PRIMARILY FORMER
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SS MEMBERS, FORMER SD (SICHERHEITS-DIEPNST,, GERMAN SECURITY
SERVICE --ED.) MEMBERS, AND FORMER GESTAPO MEMBERS.
AFTER THE WITHDRAWAL OF THE OCCUPATION POWERS FROM AUSTRIA,.
SLAVIK HEADED A SPECIAL DEPARTMENT AT THE SOVIET EMBASSY
IN VIENNA, WITH THE RANK OF KGB MAJOR. LATER HE WAS
DISPATCHED. TO ALGERIA, FROM WHERE HE ORGANIZED LARGE ARMS
SHIPMENTS FROM CZECHOSLOVAKIA FOR THE ALGERIAN NATIONAL
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LIBERATION FRONT.