THE OTHER SHOE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000201900009-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 9, 2010
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: September 17, 1981
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 --: On' July
6, 1972, William Sullivan -who had
been removed from the top echelons of
.the F.B.I. by J. Edgar Hoover-_ satin
the office of the new F.B.I. Director, L.
Patrick Gray. Mr. Sullivan wanted to
get back into law enforcement, and
passed on to Mr. Gray his suspicions
about "Fedora," a Russian at the U.N.
who was supposedly passing secrets on
to the F.B.T.
By 1976, I am informed,. the FBI
.. -had largely concluded that "Fedora"
10*1% 12=h
wmecrea to an investigation of-
rene-
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iZUUvrmauon to th FBI'n
,e..., ad mis-
'IeadingourC.IA. Y Tnam Safire
NEW YORK TIMES
17 SEPTEMBER 1981
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the Sovie disinformation plot-stands
revealed; the other half sits in place.
At the C.I.A., a wholesale re-evalua-
tion should be taking place..., not only
reversing the verdicts of the past,
which assured us that Soviet .missiles
were not accurate, but to, question the
judgment of those who were taken in.
Former Director Turner's friends
are now spreading the-word that.the.
reason he fired a flock of hard-liners in
gade agents selling:: terrorist tecl ._
F.B.I.'s decision to disbelieve ?'Fedo. ? Soviet. "spy" in New York was to
mation scheme. ..?~~`??` ;
ra," dating the decision in ieve establish the bona fides of a Soviet de- The Senate Intelligence Committee
Another Soviet defector, the former z fector, Yuri ; Nosenko, who came to us should demand the dropping of the
U.N. Under Secretary Arkady Schev- shortly after:-theKennedy..,assassina-m other shoe in theyFedora Nosenko af-
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chenko; tells me that "Fedora". must
the C I.A. that Lee Har fur, and' should find. out whether the
have been an amalgam of several vey Oswald was not a Soviet. agent. `man White House Intelligence
have s. We'll be learning more from o edora told us tobelieve Mr. Nosen- Oversight Board did its duty in the
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... Golitzin. has been split between the who dis- Board was set up to deal with intell!-
At any rate, we-now know (1) that trusted Mr.?Nosenko.and suspected he pence abuses and its members
were
the men in charge of American coon- was a "plant" - among them James active; in the Carter years, the three
terespionage had been hoodwinked for Angleton, and to some extent Richard men met every three weeks and
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and thoseh bli rocked no boatsi J
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been persuaded that its Soviet source Nosenko, including William Colby and Mr. Reagan accepted the board's
was a phony for the last five years. Iii Stansfield Turner. ensirnation, it has been out of business
.1977 New York agents.. urged that In recent years the disbelievers at ' entirely.
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"Fedora" be arrested before slipping the agency w e r e labeled "
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back to, the Soviet Union; they were and pushed out, while analysts who ' a new triumvirate to checkabuse,
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One of these days a story of a similar ed. Mr. Nosenko has been a lecturer at Advisory Board
at the time he apnolnis the headed by ne-
operation will come out: in -Sol(), "we the C.I.A., teaching counterintelli- to be headed by Anne- I
thought we had two men penetrting ' gene to our spies, which the writer Armstrong sto review ffitelligencequal-
the Communist party apparatus. With Edward Jay Epstein rightly calls "the I . Wrangling over. the Executive
one of these triple agents dead and the crowning absurdity." Order on Inteiligt ce is understand.
other dying, we can only surmise the . Here . is the si able, but to permit four or five months
extent of that disinformation opera- F.B.I.'s "Fedora" tricked Cus as tthhe? to e by with no Oversight Board in
tion. F.B.I has believed far some placmakes a n~ocl ery of oversight ?
With new eyes; we can now look now quietly admits, then we were and . The F. B.I. knows it was misled and
,back and change black to white, cor- tematlcally.misled about Mr. Nosen- the moved must go through the ba In of
resting the disinformation. What were ko. James Angleton was right and the finding out exactly how illy of
"Fedora" and "Solo" sent here to rxus- "nw1sv boy network" at the C.I.A. was
land us about? cdived to make sure it is not stil being
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