SPY GEORGE BLAKE 'UNMASKED BY SON OF CZAR'

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000202240004-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 25, 2010
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: October 6, 1980
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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LONDODN DAILY TELEGRAPH
6 OCTOBER 1980
STAT
By IHENRYMILLER in Jtoscow
EORG9?,BLATKE one of -Russia's; most.
C FAN age it,In-Poland, a man claiming to be a,
son of the Czar, it was
. by British agents in Warsaw as
.
t
successfuspies.. was unmasked by a
ISC 05e yes
er ay: potential targets
for - recruit
went He .said this list had
The, marl, ' w o also come from the KGB..
called himself Michael When the G I A evaluated the
Goleniewski, is said to have- list, the question. - arose: How
been the most productive could the KGB have obtained
such a list unless" it- had a spy
agent.-in the history of the- inside. the British -Secret Ser-
C.I A_ vice ?
Epstein says that 'then the
'But his real name, accord- CIA queried the British about
ig to an. Article in the the list they retorted that it was
NEW--YORK TIMES MAGAZINE- a " clumsy fabrication " and
was- the. Grand Duke Aleksei - that the-names could have been
taken out of . the Warsaw tele
Nicholaevich? sori -:of Nichn -
Phone directory: '
He_. told ::the C 1A' when he
Traced' to Blake
defected in 1560; that his father He.goes on "Then; to every-
had secretly escaped, from' Rus
sia to Poland after the Bolshe- one's astonishment,. a research-
viks had seized "power. -- er in the C.IA's. Eastern-Euro.
He is said to have uncovered - pear .Division discovered that
the identities. Of -more . than a British -Intelligence-_ had. sent
essentially the same list to the,,
dozen. Soviet- " moles," includ- C I A a year or so earlier,
in, George Blake. It--now becamecleae- that- the
.list had not been lifted" from
Names.:-Srojin K .G
- ' the Warsaw telephone book but,
These disclosures have been from the secret files of British
made iby: Edward `ray-, Epstein. Intelligence,". an author. who ; i& writing a Ile says. that Allen Dulles,
book on. the spy ..war.. He re-. then Director of'the C I-A pre-
veals .h-`ow Goleniewski helped -rented:' this evidence' to his
t o !expose Blake's -treachery. . British- counterpart and after
He writes: that Goleniewski several months of investigation
provided the -C I:A. with' a docu-those who,liad access -to the list,
merit ;that- was a ~ purported list " British rntelligence;'-traced' the-
of 26t Polish; :officials compiled probable leak " to George, Blake.
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