COLD WAR AGAINST THE SOVIETS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01070R000100190005-0
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 14, 2007
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: May 27, 1982
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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RADIO TV REPORTS, INC.
4701 WILLARD AVENUE, CHEVY CHASE, MARYLAND 20815 656-4068
CBS Evening News
STATION WDVM-TV
CBS Network
DATE May 27, 1982 7:00 P.M. CITY Washington, D.C.
Cold War Against the Soviets
DAN RATHER: It's a Long Island community of just under
25,000 people 32 miles from New York. It's a kind of all-
American community, including residents of Italian, Russian,
German, Slavic, and Greek descent. And now it's on a cold war
footing. Its weapons, as Morton Dean reports, are fun-and games.
MORTON DEAN: It's more than an iron gate; it's an iron
curtain. Behind it is a secret world. On 36 cushy capitalistic
acres is the official residence of the Soviet Ambassador to the
United Nations. It's ground zero in a cold war being waged in
Glen Cove, New York.
WOMAN: Why should they get anything for nothing?
have to pay our taxes.
MAN: I do find it offensive that they're here in our
community, using our facilities free of charge without paying any
taxes, and carrying on espionage.
DEAN: Recently, a Soviet defector revealed that this
49-room mansion is more than just a place where the Soviet
Ambassador can unwind after a hard day down at the U.N., that
it's a spy nest, a cover for a major electronics surveillance
operation.
MAYOR ALAN PARENT: The revelation that the Russians are
using the estate for espionage activities is the straw that
broke the camel's back.
DEAN: The Mayor formulated a battle plan. Sure, the
Soviet Union has more missiles and tanks and men in arms than
Glen Cove, but Glen Cove has beaches and tennis courts and a golf
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course. So the City Council voted to ban the Soviets from using
public recreational facilities, the beaches, the tennis courts,
and the golf course. It satisfied the sense of outrage.
WOMAN: Well, they turn around and spy on us, they put
spies out, and they still should be allowed to have privileges?
Really.
DEAN: It satisfied the patriotic fervor.
RAYMOND ADAMCHAZAK: The KGB are paid assassins, and the
KGB ought to be removed from Glen Cove. And that's the way I
feel about it.
DEAN: And it satisfied the anti-Soviet sentiment of
many residents.
WOMAN: I've been next to them. They wouldn't return a
ball, even when we asked them. And I'm sure they know the
language.
DEAN: The lone member of the City Council to have voted
against the sanctions fears the situation could escalate.
DONALD DERIGGI: There's going to be a situation where
our people in Moscow are going to be made uncomfortable because
we're making someone uncomfortable here.
DEAN: The Soviets, who refused to talk about the
situation with CBS News, did protest to the State Department.
Highly informed sources told us quiet diplomacy could defuse the
crisis.
Glen Cove might be willing to lift its sanctions if the
spy gear is removed or if Washington picks up the tab for taxes
lost and services rendered. Meanwhile, the Mayor pledges to
stand firm.
MAYOR PARENTE: We're revoking their right to use the
recreational facilities. And if a Soviet came up here and tried
to use them, I would ask him to leave. And if he didn't leave, I
would call down the police department and remove him from the
facility. Yes.
DEAN: Glen Cove, New York, another trigger point in the
dangerous world of East-West relations.
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