F.B.I. REPORTEDLY KNOW OF RUSSIAN'S ACTIVITIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000404690004-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 9, 2010
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: October 6, 1984
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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A'~TI CLF APPEARED
ON PtiGE
NEW YORK TIMES
6 October 1984
~'.B.I. Reportedly Knew
Of Russian's Activities!
"She made no effort to fit in here,"
he said. "She was achain-smoker,
dressed like an aging punk-rocker. No,
she was bragging. How could she be a
K.G.B. agent who was so open about
Soviet sympathies?"
The publisher of a popular Russian
Jewish magazine here, Almanac-Pano-
Tama, echoed the priest's view.
By JUDITH CUNNINGS "I wouldn't say they were very
? sum cc nu . ew Ycrk Tim< smart people," said Alexander Polo-
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 5 - A nest - vets, the publisher. "I'd be surprised if
p -The priest said he called the F.B.I. they worked for.the K.G.B. I think they
said today that he told Federal agents himself and was informed that "they were just happy to play some special
two years ago that a parishioner, Swet- were well acquainted with her activi- role, to get some respect from our peo-
Lana Ogorodnikova, was active in pro- ties." An F.B.I. affidavit, filed Toes- . ple."
' Soviet activities. He said he had been day in Federal District Court in Los I The bureau affidavit said that a
?told, "We know all about her." ,Angeles, said Mrs. Ogorodnikova was 1 search of the couple's apartment
`Mrs. Ogorodnikova and her husband, interviewed by agents often between 1~ ~~ ^p such ..equipment as cipher
1`Tikolay Ogorodnikov, were an-ested : February: l9ffi and August 1984. ,pads, code books, concealment devices
'Tuesday on charges of participating in Bill Baker, an assistant director of and microdots, as well as bureau docu-
' an espionage conspiracy involving the the F.B.I. in Washington, said that she' ments and records of payments to Mr.
. cooperation of an agent of the Federal had given the bureau information and Miller.
;Bureau of Investigation. ' 'could ha~e been acting as a double
Richard W. Miller, a bureau agent ~ ,agent. Two Russian Communities
>for 20 years, was ar.-~.sted Tuesday on ' , In 1983 and 1984, Mrs. Ogorodnikova , There are two Russian immigrant
charges of selling counterespionage se- : ,received welfare payments of $242 a i communities in Los Angeles, the Rus-
.crets to the Ogorodnikovs. It was the ; month and $72 in food stamps for her- scan Christians and the Russian Jews.
First known instance of an agent being :self and her son, claiming the absence Recent emigres are said to number
charged in an espionage case. of her husband, according to a spokes- about 15,000, with many more the de-
??The Russian couple, who came to this' man for the Department of Public So- scendants of earlier immigrants, dat-
dountry in 1973, attracted considerable cial Services. Some Los Angeles ing principally to the period sun-ound-
,attention in the Russian immigrant County supervisors have called for an ing the 1917 Communist Revolution.
'communi here for their o nl ro- investigation of the awarding of those
tY ~ y p ents. Both immigrant communities are
Soviet views. Mrs. Ogorodnikova dis-? ~ ~~ centered in the aging neighborhoods of
tributed Soviet-made movies and' ??_ She Called Herself an Agent Hollywood and West Hollywood. T'hey'.
magazines. According to the bureau, Nis. Ogo- share Plummer Park there as a gath-
Son Forced From School i-odnikova identified herself to Mr. eying place, primarily for the eIderly,.
1: `Miller as "a major" of the K.G.B, the and for cultural activities. But each
_ -The Rev. Stephen Fitzgerald, pastor ~ ?Soviet security agency, and talked. of Russian community has its own cul-
~of the Russian Orthodox Church of the : promises from Soviet officials that her ~ center, its network of social-serv-
'Holy Virgin Mary in Hollywood, said in; ? son could attend a prestigious Soviet ice agencies and its own popular publi-
aninterview today that he learned two . ?school in return for her efforts. Bureau cations, Panorama for the Jews and
years ago that Mrs. Ogorodnikova had ~ officials in Washington said Mr. Miller The California Messenger for the
persuaded a parish family of five to re- "was believed to have had a sexual rela- Christians.
turn to the Soviet Union. He said she ' tionship with Mrs. Ogorodnikova. There have been three major waves
,had gotten the Soviet Consulate in San Many in the Russian community of Russian immigration to Los .An-
:Francisco to pay for the move, as well here, said to be the largest outside of ~ geles: after the Russian Revolution
as to promise a full scholarship to a 'New York, said they wondered whether and World War I, after World War II, ;
Soviet utiversity for one of the family s ?~. Miller was seduced not by a profes- and from about 1973 to 1980, when the
~ehildren. ~ b b b' ' f
t
t
Father Fitzgerald said that as a re-
sult, he made Nis. Ogorodnikova with-
draw her son, Matthew, from the
church school. Angry, she "said we
couldn't do that, that she would come
hack here with a hundred people and
that she would tell the F.B.I," Father.
Fitzgerald said.
sion spy u
ree-
y an am i
~ous Soviet Government relaxed immigra-
lancer. lion policies regarding Jews. The re- .
Father Fitzgerald, for one, rejected cent Jewish arrivals are known here as '
the notion that she was actually a ~ "the Third Wave."
K.G.B. agent. "A K.G.B. groupie,)
,maybe," he said.
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